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LLM slop. Why do people (presumably) take the time to debug something like this, do tests and go to great lengths, but are too lazy to do a little manual writeu
by fleshmonad 10mo ago
LLM slop. Why do people (presumably) take the time to debug something like this, do tests and go to great lengths, but are too lazy to do a little manual writeup? Maybe the hour saved makes up for being associated with publishing AI slop under your own name? Like there is no way the author would have written a text that reads more convoluted than what we have here.
- ryandv 10mo ago[flagged]
- skrebbel 10mo ago> which is par for Rubyists Pro-tip: re-read your comment before you submit and take out the bits that make you sound like an asshole.
- sb8244 10mo agoI read it just fine and everything made sense in it. I would spend similar time debugging this if I were the author. It's a pretty serious bug, a non obvious issue, and would be impossible to connect to the ffi fix unless you already knew the problem.
- dpark 10mo agoSorry, why is this LLM slop? I only got about halfway through because I don’t care about this enough to finish the read, but I don’t see the “obvious LLM” signal you do.
- scmccarthy 10mo agoIt's clearest in the conclusion.
- dpark 10mo agoI still don’t see it. I feel like the “this is AI” crowd is getting ridiculous. Too perfect? Clearly AI. Too sloppy? That’s clearly AI too. Rarely is there anything concrete that the person claiming AI can point to. It’s just “I can tell”. Same confident assurance that all the teachers trusting “AI detectors” have.
- dkdcio 10mo agoI came to this thread hoping to read an interesting discussion of a topic I don’t understand well; instead it’s this I have opened a wager r.e. detecting LLM/AI use in blogs: https://dkdc.dev/posts/llm-ai-blog-challenge/ https://dkdc.dev/posts/llm-ai-blog-challenge/
- dpark 10mo agoI feel like it’s on every other article now. The “this is ai” comments detract way more from the conversation than whatever supposed ai content is actually in the article. These ai hunters are like the transvestigators who are certain they can always tell who’s trans.
- PKop 10mo agoNo. These articles are annoying to read, the same dumb patterns and structures over and over again in every one. It's a waste of time; the content gives off a generic tone and it's not interesting.
- fn-mote 10mo ago> Why do people […] take the time to debug […] but are too lazy to do a little manual writeup[?] They like to code. They don’t like to write. I’m not excusing it, but after you asked the question the conclusion seems logical.
- PKop 10mo ago> They like to code. They don’t like to write. People like reading LLM slop less than either of those. So it should become a common understanding not to waste your (or our) time to "write" this. It's frustrating to give it a chance then get rug-pulled with nonsense and there's really no reason to excuse it.
- michaelcampbell 10mo ago> LLM slop Is this the new "looks shopped. I can tell by the pixels."?
- dmix 10mo agoEvery single article or social media post has someone claiming it's AI these days From what I've seen doesn't it take a particularly strong reason for the entire article to get dismissed
- iberator 10mo agoFor example beigg non native english speaker:)
- xerxes901 10mo agoI have no idea whether the text was generated from an LLM, but “slop” it absolutely is not - it’s clearly a very logically ordered walkthrough about a very thorough debugging process. If you call anything that comes out of a model “slop” the term uses all meaning.