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I found the agressively staccato, clearly LLM-generated content extremely difficult to read.
by esquivalience 3mo ago
I found the agressively staccato, clearly LLM-generated content extremely difficult to read.
- estetlinus 3mo agoIt’s the new internet. So, so annoying.
- scottmcdot 3mo agoWhich bit? The short sentences?
- bonoboTP 3mo agoNot just the length but the structure, the way the headlines are phrased, the use of "honestly", the "not X but Y", many things cumulatively, not one particular thing in itself. If you work a lot with LLM writing, you notice. Same way you recognize the writing style of famous authors. It's never one particular thing but many.
- noduerme 3mo agoYeah, but it's kinda weird. The typical LLM headers and bullet points are there, but it's like someone took an axe to the rest of the spew. I too would rather read someone's original bad writing than their bad editing of AI writing, but it's kinda interesting how this all shakes out.
- bartvk 3mo agoI wish people would include their prompts.
- netsharc 3mo agoIt doesn't seem to be LLM, but reads like one. The author is German, maybe it's a language expertise thing, maybe he likes the LLM style (unrelated to his nationality). But yeah, sentences that only have 3-4 word each feel like 3rd grade writing; I couldn't read it.
- weetii 3mo agoHey, I've always written like this. In school I couldn't stand subordinate clauses and long sentences because I'd lose my train of thought. But yea, I've noticed that people often find it hard to read so I'm going to work on that
- darianvc 3mo agoYou're good fr. People on here who try to make their day about being AI detectives. You're trying to work on it and that's what matters
- cubefox 3mo agoDid you use an LLM to write at least part of the article?
- SoMomentary 3mo agoI actually feel the opposite of what most people are saying here. I thought your writing style was great. It felt like you respected my time as a reader and got to the fucking point. I thought the lack of fluff was refreshing!
- darianvc 3mo agoMight stop using bullet points for not being flagged as AI lol "Very small" -> yeah, this header is mostly AI generated. No hate against the author but this doesn't make any sense as header
- bstsb 3mo agofor the first time in a while on HN, i disagree with the characterisation as AI-generated. at most it was drafted with an LLM, but the final output is pretty human to me. they used the wrong it’s/its, made But. its own one-word sentence, didn’t capitalise HTML, and used “okayy” in parenthesis. all of this isn’t to criticise the writer - i enjoyed it more seeing these little imperfections that make up a blog post
- fortuitous-frog 3mo agoLooks largely AI-written, with some human edits: https://www.pangram.com/history/9afe7542-1085-4264-9691-2172c2f4c1d9 https://www.pangram.com/history/9afe7542-1085-4264-9691-2172... FWIW -- I'm not as repulsed by it as the parent comment. But I do want to substantiate that it _is_ heavily LLM-written. (If you're unfamiliar, Pangram has garnered a reputation as the leading LLM-detector, with a minimal rate of false positives; IME this has come with the tradeoff of being easy to manipulate/tweak your way into turning an LLM-generated piece of text into reporting a false negative, but for most folks that's worthwhile.)
- darianvc 3mo agoPeople do be having too much time... Is the navigation of the site also AI generated? This doesn't make any sense and proves why these AI detectors don't work
- MomsAVoxell 3mo agoI have been writing for a long time, and using AI for as long as it was available to me, and I have noticed that I get accused of being an AI more and more - and I do not think that is because I am an AI, but because we are all being consumed with the AI mind-set, and thus the AI is taking over our thinking - so perhaps subconsciously, I am indeed formulating my thoughts in a more AI-centric manner, prompting the association across the vast distances of the internet by other human beings (- or, AI) of my conscious thought, with an artifice. This is a banal insult, but it is also a dire warning wherever I see it - these days, people moaning about being AI may as well just be AI - automatic ignorance - but .. I do have to wonder. Am I, AI?
- k2enemy 3mo agoHalfway through I was sure that there would be a reveal at the end of the article that the article itself was stored in the site's favicon, thus explaining the short, terse sentences. I was genuinely disappointed when I realized it wasn't. Missed opportunity!
- benhill70 3mo agoI like the way it's written. I often write in a similar manner and I have never used LLMs to generate an writing for me. I have written exactly this way at work. Too me, the author is just trying to get to the point. They know people start skimming if there is too much text.
- SamBam 3mo ago> The important catch > The favicon doesn't actually contain the whole website itself. This is the kind of thing that is extremely idiomatic LLM speak. There's nothing particularly wrong about it per se, but it just makes everyone who is familiar with LLMs say "oh, it's written by an AI" and it just becomes disappointing.
- bonoboTP 3mo agoAgreed. Disappointing that more people don't notice it's AI.
- istjohn 3mo agoI found the writing engaging and enjoyable to read.
- stevenhuang 3mo agoThere should be a pathology for thinking things must be LLM generated when it's simply not always the case. People's ability to discern is completely fried.
- esquivalience 3mo agoDo you think I was wrong about this one? Maybe. I'm usually fairly forgiving about it and like to err on the side of being generous to the individual but in this case it seemed very clear to me and got in the way of the message. I noticed the .de domain and wondered whether it might be AI translation, But I don't think it was, and in my experience, AI translation doesn't give the same uncanny valley vibes.
- themadturk 3mo agoI complained about this style of writing on Medium a few months ago. The author of the article replied that it's a preferred style if you anticipate your writing to be read on a small smartphone screen. This kind of makes sense. Whether that article (or this one) was AI-generated or not, I don't know.