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Yeah it reads like it, and if a random AI detector (GPTZero) is to be believed it's pretty much all AI generated. Crazy that nobody can be bothered to get rid

by talos 9mo ago

Yeah it reads like it, and if a random AI detector (GPTZero) is to be believed it's pretty much all AI generated. Crazy that nobody can be bothered to get rid of the obvious AI-isms "This isn't just for...", "The Challenges (And How We Handle Them)", "One PR. One review. One merge. Everything ships together." It's an immediate signal that whoever wrote this DGAF.

lawrjone 9mo ago
I hadn't come across GPTZero before and wondered if it worked. Just testing on a sample of my blog posts (I do one each year) I got a 100% AI generated mark for a post in... 2022, and 2023. Both before AI tools were around. Not to say this post isn't AI generated but you might want a better tool (if one exists)
- talos 9mo ago
  Yeah, it's got a real issue with false positives. And I've tried a bunch of other tools (Sapling, ZeroGPT, a few others) and actually GPTZero was the best of the bunch. The others would miss obviously AI generated content that I'd just generated to test them. I've had a blog post kicking around about this for a while, it's CRAZY how much more expensive AI detection is than AI generation. In my mind content generated today with AI "tells" like the above and a general zero-calorie-feel that also trip an AI detector are very likely AI generated.
- talos 9mo ago
  Hmm I'm curious which blog post tripped it? I tried a few from your site in 2023 and none of them were flagged as AI generated.
teekert 9mo ago
Pff the mental list of what I can’t use when I write is getting pretty big. Em dashes are done for, as are deep dives, delving, anything too enthusiastic, and Oxford commas… A text either has value to you or it doesn’t. I don’t really understand what the level of AI involvement has to do with it. A human can produce slop, an AI can produce an insightful piece. I rely mostly on HN to tell them apart value-wise.
- talos 9mo ago
  Did this not read as AI generated to you?
  - teekert 9mo ago
    No, can’t say I noticed it. But I’m not a native English speaker. For me the AI transforms my poor Dunglish (Dutch-English) into perfect English. I do tell it to not sound like an American waiter though.
Escapade5160 9mo ago
The obvious tell for me is when the article is packed full of 'Its not just x, it's y' statements. I am not sure why LLMs gravitated so heavily towards their current style of writing. Pre LLMs, I can't recall seeing that much written content in that format. If I did, it was in short form content.

by talos 9mo ago

lawrjone 9mo ago

I hadn't come across GPTZero before and wondered if it worked. Just testing on a sample of my blog posts (I do one each year) I got a 100% AI generated mark for a post in... 2022, and 2023. Both before AI tools were around. Not to say this post isn't AI generated but you might want a better tool (if one exists)

talos 9mo ago
Yeah, it's got a real issue with false positives. And I've tried a bunch of other tools (Sapling, ZeroGPT, a few others) and actually GPTZero was the best of the bunch. The others would miss obviously AI generated content that I'd just generated to test them. I've had a blog post kicking around about this for a while, it's CRAZY how much more expensive AI detection is than AI generation. In my mind content generated today with AI "tells" like the above and a general zero-calorie-feel that also trip an AI detector are very likely AI generated.
talos 9mo ago
Hmm I'm curious which blog post tripped it? I tried a few from your site in 2023 and none of them were flagged as AI generated.

teekert 9mo ago

Pff the mental list of what I can’t use when I write is getting pretty big. Em dashes are done for, as are deep dives, delving, anything too enthusiastic, and Oxford commas… A text either has value to you or it doesn’t. I don’t really understand what the level of AI involvement has to do with it. A human can produce slop, an AI can produce an insightful piece. I rely mostly on HN to tell them apart value-wise.

talos 9mo ago
Did this not read as AI generated to you?
- teekert 9mo ago
  No, can’t say I noticed it. But I’m not a native English speaker. For me the AI transforms my poor Dunglish (Dutch-English) into perfect English. I do tell it to not sound like an American waiter though.

Escapade5160 9mo ago

The obvious tell for me is when the article is packed full of 'Its not just x, it's y' statements. I am not sure why LLMs gravitated so heavily towards their current style of writing. Pre LLMs, I can't recall seeing that much written content in that format. If I did, it was in short form content.