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It's poetically beautiful that the tool was very very clearly built mostly if not entirely using AI

thefourthchime 4mo ago
A lot of the copy also looks like AI. The text (especially the "About" section, key concerns, and Erin’s quote) reads like strong AI-generated or heavily AI-edited copy. It has that clean, structured, persuasive style common in tools like Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok. Many observers on Reddit and elsewhere noted it “looks 100% designed by Claude.”
- shantnutiwari 4mo ago
  "The text (especially the "About" section, key concerns, and Erin’s quote) reads like strong AI-generated or heavily AI-edited copy. It has that clean, structured, persuasive style common in tools like Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok. " Not this shit again. Someone writes in clean English, people on HN are like iT muST bE Ai caUSe NoONe wouLD wrITe lIKE tHAt
WatchDog 4mo ago
It might be, I'm not sure. The code is interesting though, it's not minified, it's very readable, and nicely indented with lots of comments. The curated data center list is just some inline JSON. The javascript uses var instead of let or const, I'm not sure if this is just style choice, or there is some code post processing. It doesn't use react, AI seems to almost always opt for react for front end design, unless told otherwise.
- eleventen 4mo ago
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  - WatchDog 4mo ago
    I think it's absurd to pretend like you can know how a stranger thinks. If I had to predict either way, I would guess that it is significantly AI generated, but that isn't the same thing as being sure. Almost every link submitted to HN has a comment about the content being AI generated, many of which are not, I would rather talk about the "tells" rather than make confident assertions that I can't prove.
    - ghayes 4mo ago
      For example, https://mydetector.ai/ai-code-detector/ https://mydetector.ai/ai-code-detector/ says 90% likely AI. Not that I trust the tools, but there are telltales to me in this function from the site: Object.values(zipBuckets).forEach(function(b) { var latest = b.reports.map(function(r){return r.date;}).sort().reverse()[0]; // ... var popup = '<div style="font-family: Inter, sans-serif; min-width:220px; max-width:280px;">' + (noteLines ? '<ul style="font-size:12px; color:#3a4a2a; padding-left:16px; margin:0;">' + noteLines + '</ul>' : '') + // ... } Certain ergonomics are hard to miss since a human who writes heavy FP would opt for a `(r) => r.date` lambda, where the computer has no problem writing out inline `function(r)`-style declarations. Similarly, the HTML mapping function could go either way, but mixing in large sets of text with hard constants would be really uncommon for humans to write. JavaScript is always a mess, but it's a _different_ mess between humans and AI, and this function `loadCommunityReports` really reads AI-first to me.
      - eCa 4mo ago
        I’ve only seen this snippet (on phone so no source access), but var + no fat arrow could also indicate someone who learned js a long time ago and use as what they’re used to.
  - tstrimple 4mo ago
    People who provide nothing but comments like “this is ai!” actually contribute far less than AI responses somehow.
runtime_terror 4mo ago
I'm curious peoples criteria to determine this or is it just "vibes"? Like I get it looks a lot like apps built with AI but weren't LLMs trained on real website and a metric ton of website templates? Is it possible they used a template or other UI library?
- IshKebab 4mo ago
  They're heuristics but yes there are some clear tells. For prose, Wikipedia has a great list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing For code, I haven't read as much slop so I'm not as sure but one big tell is an unusual number of basic & unnecessary comments. And if it's version controlled, hilariously long commit messages with multiple sections.
  - Gormo 4mo ago
    Almost everything on that list seems invalid, at least as a simple checklist criteria. All of the tropes involved are ubiquitous in ordinary semi-formal writing, which is why the LLMs are using them in the first place. It's more reasonable to suggest that a mismatch in tone or register between the style of writing and the venue it's being published in could be an indicator of AI, and it's possible that people misidentifying these tropes as being AI indicators per se may themselves be suffering from a filter-bubble effect, e.g. someone who doesn't typically read long-form writing might only be encountering conventions of long-form writing in AI-generated content, and misattributing them to AI in itself. That itself isn't such a great criteria on some sites where you have different userbases who interact with the site in different ways. For example, Reddit has a large "old guard" userbase that treats it like a traditional message board, with longer-form and more in-depth discussion, along with a lot of more recent users who treat it like Twitter, and expect everything to be short and informal. Users in the latter group misidentify posts by those in the former group as AI more and more frequently.
    - IshKebab 4mo ago
      The list isn't invalid. Those tropes existed before AI but they weren't used incessantly like AI does.
jmye 4mo ago
The most boring comment on the whole internet now - just blindly calling every single thing slop and pretending that has any vague value whatsoever. All noise, no signal.
- mike_hearn 4mo ago
  It obviously has signal if the website is all about attacking AI. It shows hypocrisy and a lack of attention to detail that undermines their credibility.
- shantnutiwari 4mo ago
  "The most boring comment on the whole internet now just blindly calling every single thing slop and pretending that has any vague value whatsoever." I 100% agree. And I notice you are being downvoted by the LLM Witch Hunt Committee.

A lot of the copy also looks like AI. The text (especially the "About" section, key concerns, and Erin’s quote) reads like strong AI-generated or heavily AI-edited copy. It has that clean, structured, persuasive style common in tools like Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok. Many observers on Reddit and elsewhere noted it “looks 100% designed by Claude.”

shantnutiwari 4mo ago
"The text (especially the "About" section, key concerns, and Erin’s quote) reads like strong AI-generated or heavily AI-edited copy. It has that clean, structured, persuasive style common in tools like Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok. " Not this shit again. Someone writes in clean English, people on HN are like iT muST bE Ai caUSe NoONe wouLD wrITe lIKE tHAt

WatchDog 4mo ago

It might be, I'm not sure. The code is interesting though, it's not minified, it's very readable, and nicely indented with lots of comments. The curated data center list is just some inline JSON. The javascript uses var instead of let or const, I'm not sure if this is just style choice, or there is some code post processing. It doesn't use react, AI seems to almost always opt for react for front end design, unless told otherwise.

eleventen 4mo ago
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- WatchDog 4mo ago
  I think it's absurd to pretend like you can know how a stranger thinks. If I had to predict either way, I would guess that it is significantly AI generated, but that isn't the same thing as being sure. Almost every link submitted to HN has a comment about the content being AI generated, many of which are not, I would rather talk about the "tells" rather than make confident assertions that I can't prove.
  - ghayes 4mo ago
    For example, https://mydetector.ai/ai-code-detector/ https://mydetector.ai/ai-code-detector/ says 90% likely AI. Not that I trust the tools, but there are telltales to me in this function from the site: Object.values(zipBuckets).forEach(function(b) { var latest = b.reports.map(function(r){return r.date;}).sort().reverse()[0]; // ... var popup = '<div style="font-family: Inter, sans-serif; min-width:220px; max-width:280px;">' + (noteLines ? '<ul style="font-size:12px; color:#3a4a2a; padding-left:16px; margin:0;">' + noteLines + '</ul>' : '') + // ... } Certain ergonomics are hard to miss since a human who writes heavy FP would opt for a `(r) => r.date` lambda, where the computer has no problem writing out inline `function(r)`-style declarations. Similarly, the HTML mapping function could go either way, but mixing in large sets of text with hard constants would be really uncommon for humans to write. JavaScript is always a mess, but it's a _different_ mess between humans and AI, and this function `loadCommunityReports` really reads AI-first to me.
    - eCa 4mo ago
      I’ve only seen this snippet (on phone so no source access), but var + no fat arrow could also indicate someone who learned js a long time ago and use as what they’re used to.
- tstrimple 4mo ago
  People who provide nothing but comments like “this is ai!” actually contribute far less than AI responses somehow.

runtime_terror 4mo ago

I'm curious peoples criteria to determine this or is it just "vibes"? Like I get it looks a lot like apps built with AI but weren't LLMs trained on real website and a metric ton of website templates? Is it possible they used a template or other UI library?

IshKebab 4mo ago
They're heuristics but yes there are some clear tells. For prose, Wikipedia has a great list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing For code, I haven't read as much slop so I'm not as sure but one big tell is an unusual number of basic & unnecessary comments. And if it's version controlled, hilariously long commit messages with multiple sections.
- Gormo 4mo ago
  Almost everything on that list seems invalid, at least as a simple checklist criteria. All of the tropes involved are ubiquitous in ordinary semi-formal writing, which is why the LLMs are using them in the first place. It's more reasonable to suggest that a mismatch in tone or register between the style of writing and the venue it's being published in could be an indicator of AI, and it's possible that people misidentifying these tropes as being AI indicators per se may themselves be suffering from a filter-bubble effect, e.g. someone who doesn't typically read long-form writing might only be encountering conventions of long-form writing in AI-generated content, and misattributing them to AI in itself. That itself isn't such a great criteria on some sites where you have different userbases who interact with the site in different ways. For example, Reddit has a large "old guard" userbase that treats it like a traditional message board, with longer-form and more in-depth discussion, along with a lot of more recent users who treat it like Twitter, and expect everything to be short and informal. Users in the latter group misidentify posts by those in the former group as AI more and more frequently.
  - IshKebab 4mo ago
    The list isn't invalid. Those tropes existed before AI but they weren't used incessantly like AI does.

jmye 4mo ago

The most boring comment on the whole internet now - just blindly calling every single thing slop and pretending that has any vague value whatsoever. All noise, no signal.

mike_hearn 4mo ago
It obviously has signal if the website is all about attacking AI. It shows hypocrisy and a lack of attention to detail that undermines their credibility.
shantnutiwari 4mo ago
"The most boring comment on the whole internet now just blindly calling every single thing slop and pretending that has any vague value whatsoever." I 100% agree. And I notice you are being downvoted by the LLM Witch Hunt Committee.