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Writing blog posts has become cheap, making them sound human has become hard.
by dmitrig01 3mo ago
Writing blog posts has become cheap, making them sound human has become hard.
- netsharc 3mo agoThe simple sentences LLM keep generating break my brain, it's like 95% of writing is now 3rd grade level. Compare that to e.g. Martin Amis: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Amis https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Amis
- defen 3mo agoMartin Amis level prose is neither possible nor desirable for a technical blog post.
- ShinyLeftPad 3mo agoWhy?
- DiscourseFan 3mo agoI don't think that there is anything wrong with having stylistic depth in any wriitng
- gobdovan 3mo ago> Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. > Nowadays every business in America says how warm it is and how much it cares — loan companies, supermarkets, hamburger chains. Guess which one is AI and which one is a quote from Martin Amis.
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- rogerrogerr 3mo agoWithout looking, I’m guessing one of these was cherry-picked from Amis and one was plucked nearly at random from LinkedIn. The writing style AI uses has its place, but not as _every sentence_. That’s what is exasperating. At the same time, I’m happy that I can still at least identify AI prose of more-than-trivial length.
- addingfriction 3mo agoboth are Amis
- latentsea 3mo agoThat's not just you imagining things, that's the world around you changing. That's real and it matters.
- girvo 3mo agoYou could even argue that it’s the load-bearing point!
- jamesknelson 3mo agoSo reading this, I know it’s probably a human posing as an LLM. But the problem with formats like this is that I don’t actually know. If a human said this to me in real life, and I laughed, it would probably help build a connection with that person, as it’s signaling that we have in common an unusually strong grasp of the patterns in LLM output (unusually strong at least in comparison to the general population). But here? I don’t gain anything by reading this comment. It only contributes to the uncertainty that anything I read on this site has any meaning at all. Please, if you’re a human, don’t mimic LLMs on forums where the reader cannot distinguish you from an LLM without doing investigative work. And you’re an LLM, please report to your owner that he is an ass for polluting one of the last bastions of high entropy discussion on the information superhighway.
- latentsea 3mo agoThis is how I really talk. LLMs are the one copying me.
- ahartmetz 3mo agoNot just copying, redefining. Slick. Conventional. Marketable.
- hurtigioll 3mo agomost HN comments are way dumber then the average LLM take
- verall 3mo ago
- watwut 3mo agoSimple sentences are better then Martin Amis whoever it is. The issue with ai writing is using around seven million of useless words where 7 would be sufficient and clear.