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by grey-area 2mo ago
With circular deals it’s hard to tell.
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by grey-area 2mo ago
They’re also at the centre of a lot of circular deals, nvidia in particular is notorious for it and still doing it. From last month: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-27/nvidia-s-... Or from 20
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by grey-area 2mo ago
Well a lot of money is being spent, but is a lot of money being made? With circular deals it’s hard to tell.
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by grey-area 2mo ago
Claude doesn’t think or have a goal like correctly summarise a topic, it just generates text based on the corpus and training. So not really weird that it is sometimes vague and sometimes incorrect. Training could not address semantic densi
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by grey-area 2mo ago
That is probably around 0.0001% of all code deployed.
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by grey-area 2mo ago
Your analogy breaks down because code is not heavily regulated as cars are. This is worth saying precisely because of this difference - people see huge amounts of bad code generated by LLMs and think it is equivalent to carefully written
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by grey-area 2mo ago
Typography is not related to literacy. If you’re going to insist on em-dashes at least choose the right word.
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by grey-area 2mo ago
Yes that’s right, I and many other readers think the author is probably lying when they say they didn’t use AI.
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by grey-area 2mo ago
No, because the writing is objectively bad in ways that LLMs excel in producing. Either they used an LLM or they have no taste and have used LLMs far too much elsewhere.
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by grey-area 2mo ago
Was part of this incorrect?
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by grey-area 2mo ago
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by grey-area 2mo ago
I had a look at their blog page out of curiosity, not that you can prove much from the purported dates and text on a blog, which could be edited at any time. The blog posts from 2010s are in a completely different style and written by a hum
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by grey-area 2mo ago
Well this will certainly be an interesting test of your unbounded faith in a singularity based on word generators. When do you expect them to become a ‘centicorn’ based on this fabulous technology?
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by grey-area 2mo ago
> The mystery is what on earth his investors were thinking. Perhaps they weren’t. In which case, that would be more worrying than anything about Situational Awareness’s humbling. I think this piece is pointing out two things: That this
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by grey-area 2mo ago
The president openly lies all the time. About his pool refurbishment, the size of his crowds and even how good he is at golf.
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by grey-area 2mo ago
In the past window could mean a glass door? I wasn’t aware of that, please forgive my ignorance. A minor point anyway and most problems were stylistic. I think it is clearer in the original work that it is more a door than a window in the c
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by grey-area 2mo ago
Without understanding they have no way of judging the competence of Claude and the slop it generates. So yes they should just file a ticket the old way, after doing the actual hard work, which is reproducing the bug.
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by grey-area 2mo ago
Sorry, I'm not doing all that work for you, I read the first one and was sick of parsing it for meaning by the end. The work you posted was distinctly unimpressive, particularly as it had a seed text to impersonate and improve. The &#x
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by grey-area 2mo ago
I’m sorry but this isn’t very good, problems from a cursory look: Stuffed full of adjectives, a common problem when LLMs attempt to make the text literary. Stuffed full of incidental detail (window inexplicably open), which doesn’t quite m
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by grey-area 2mo ago
Show me some examples of good long form text please. Your hedging in reply (perfectly functional) does not inspire confidence.
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by grey-area 2mo ago
I’ve certainly heard from LLM operators that there is a lot of skill in developing prompts and guiding their agents, but frankly it doesn’t seem like there is much benefit at that point unless you’re willing to accept mediocre results or sp
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by grey-area 2mo ago
No the second 40 hours is a real 40 hours (two weeks), and the implication is there is no real time saving.
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by grey-area 2mo ago
But they generate objectively bad text. Why do you need an assistant to do that? Perhaps for some uses (say a summary of some business document, or generating code which is then discarded or edited) that's acceptable. For literature, d
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by grey-area 2mo ago
No, this is a problem with the nature of LLMs and the text they generate.
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by grey-area 2mo ago
I'd want to read it before passing judgement on the quality of it, not trust the word of the author's agent, one Marc Gerald of 'Europa Content', who you are quoting here. It appears a lot of people in the chain up to th
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by grey-area 2mo ago
GAI is also being used by prospective authors applying to publishing houses, and they are in fact flooded with dross created with it, which is a serious problem for them. To the extent that their reviewers get lazy and are not reading entir
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by grey-area 2mo ago
Or maybe we just collectively impose severe social sanction on people trying to pass off low effort slop as their own work and stop calling it ‘artificial intelligence’?
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by grey-area 2mo ago
It’s easier than actually writing, which is very hard to do well; authors spend years working on books. Doesn’t really matter what the original motivation was (money, reputation, fame), people will use LLMs as a shortcut to generate text, a
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by grey-area 2mo ago
$2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI use https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/31/crime-novel-de...
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by grey-area 2mo ago
The problem is not about money it is that we are made massively culturally poorer by the flood of ahistorical, amoral, incoherent, rococco, contradictory yet plausible shit produced by LLMs. Both the internet and books have been flooded wi

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