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What in particular drove you to leave this comment? I am just curious. This doesn't strike me as Gen AI slop like other posts I see sometimes.

by Fr3ck 1y ago

abhinavk 1y ago
People see an em dash and dismiss it as slop. Maybe they don't know but some of us love them and have keyboards which have an em-dash/en-dash key or use an OS where they are easy to type.
wizzwizz4 1y ago
It's got an —, and apparently these are called "ChatGPT hyphens" now – even though they're on my keyboard.
- beej71 1y ago
  Bad news for all my programming guides that use em dashes properly... ;D Luckily I have a Git history on them that predates LLMs, for whatever that's worth. In Vim, the digraph is ^K-M.
Kim_Bruning 1y ago
Ah, a lot of people do use LLMs for editing. And when I read this I can just hear GPT-4.x's style and tone of voice in my head. None of the following are smoking guns, but together... well, either it's GPT or it's https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/ . * Bullet point lists * emdash * extensive use of bold * sentence fragments * "Here's the good news:" * juxtaposition over emdash: "This transition is happening — but we’re not being ignored anymore." * Bullet points that simply MUST have a conclusion " The entire workflow? Gone." , " not just for me, but for every user who deserves to choose how they compute.", "And they shouldn’t have to." , "But we have to start over." * "I hope it’s done right — not half-baked, not bolted on." * "We lost an ecosystem." * "That has to change. / And it starts with every compositor agreeing on what “accessible” actually means. " etc.... Maybe it's A) A human who is a very skilled writer with a particular style B) GPT4.x but my best guess is C) Both: Human did the rough draft, then had GPT4 edit it into shape.
- bmacho 1y ago
  OFF but I liked most of these points ~3 years ago. Bullet points for "what you will learn" and "what you've learnt" for example. Now articles structured this way make me sad. I am not sure if it is acquired distaste, just tiring, or recent articles are indeed worse; either way I am not very happy about them.

What in particular drove you to leave this comment? I am just curious. This doesn't strike me as Gen AI slop like other posts I see sometimes.

by Fr3ck 1y ago

What in particular drove you to leave this comment? I am just curious. This doesn't strike me as Gen AI slop like other posts I see sometimes.

abhinavk 1y ago

People see an em dash and dismiss it as slop. Maybe they don't know but some of us love them and have keyboards which have an em-dash/en-dash key or use an OS where they are easy to type.

wizzwizz4 1y ago

It's got an —, and apparently these are called "ChatGPT hyphens" now – even though they're on my keyboard.

beej71 1y ago
Bad news for all my programming guides that use em dashes properly... ;D Luckily I have a Git history on them that predates LLMs, for whatever that's worth. In Vim, the digraph is ^K-M.

Kim_Bruning 1y ago

Ah, a lot of people do use LLMs for editing. And when I read this I can just hear GPT-4.x's style and tone of voice in my head. None of the following are smoking guns, but together... well, either it's GPT or it's https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/ . * Bullet point lists * emdash * extensive use of bold * sentence fragments * "Here's the good news:" * juxtaposition over emdash: "This transition is happening — but we’re not being ignored anymore." * Bullet points that simply MUST have a conclusion " The entire workflow? Gone." , " not just for me, but for every user who deserves to choose how they compute.", "And they shouldn’t have to." , "But we have to start over." * "I hope it’s done right — not half-baked, not bolted on." * "We lost an ecosystem." * "That has to change. / And it starts with every compositor agreeing on what “accessible” actually means. " etc.... Maybe it's A) A human who is a very skilled writer with a particular style B) GPT4.x but my best guess is C) Both: Human did the rough draft, then had GPT4 edit it into shape.

bmacho 1y ago
OFF but I liked most of these points ~3 years ago. Bullet points for "what you will learn" and "what you've learnt" for example. Now articles structured this way make me sad. I am not sure if it is acquired distaste, just tiring, or recent articles are indeed worse; either way I am not very happy about them.