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you are so wrong. this is not ai.
by throwaway98797 3mo ago
you are so wrong. this is not ai.
- svnt 3mo agoParts of it seem not to be, but the bulk of it is. Here is a particularly clear example of opus-4.8-speak. > Now, I want to be careful here, because this is the part where it would be very easy to start waving my arms around. Every single one of these has many causes. Suburbs and cars. Television, and then phones. A long list of things that have nothing to do with me at all. I am not going to claim I have found the one secret root of loneliness, and you should be suspicious of anyone who does. We cannot cleanly untangle these. That is just honestly true.
- forgetfreeman 3mo agoWatching trust in online content of any kind disintegrate in realtime due to AI in a forum that on balance breathlessly touts AI is surreal.
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- SpicyLemonZest 3mo agoYou're conflating different things here. You would have to look very hard on HN to find someone who "breathlessly touts" the idea of publishing AI-generated blogposts under your own name.
- forgetfreeman 3mo agoIn for a penny, in for a pound. "Well it's ok when I do it" doesn't wash.
- throwaway98797 3mo agoi wish i could codify voice. probably someone has. i’m not beyond being fooled, but when there’s voice there’s a human. this is especially true with certain types of awkward phrasings that LLMs love to correct but humans don’t. one day my internal filter will fail, but not today.
- svnt 3mo agoRight, this is cyborg text. The opening is in human voice. I am acknowledging that. Then it ebbs and flows over llm rocks. The piece would be maybe 6-8 grafs without claude, and much of claude is papered over.