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How do you know when it's not written by LLM except to take someone's word? If I got caught slopping I'd be too embarassed to admit it. "I wrote it all myself!
by rustyminnow 1mo ago
How do you know when it's not written by LLM except to take someone's word? If I got caught slopping I'd be too embarassed to admit it. "I wrote it all myself! I actually majored in slick writing and minored in tenuous metaphor."
- boxed 1mo agoI assume not 100% of all HN linked articles were written by AI, while at the same time noticing that 100% have a comment saying how it's AI written.
- rustyminnow 1mo agoFind me one that you genuinely think is not AI written or edited, with comments claiming it is.
- K0balt 1mo agoI’ve had blog posts I wrote 17 years ago “called out” as AI generated lol. More than once.
- tom_ 1mo agoThis entire subsection of the discussion is about the apparent fact that some people just can't tell whether they're reading AI slop or what. And this surely applies to the haters just as much as the lovers. Anyway, I've no doubt your blog posts from 2009 or whatever were not generated by an LLM. But this fuckin shit right here from 2026 though? LLM. 100%. (By which I don't mean it generated 100% of it, as there's the odd sentence that sounds vaguely human, just that I am 100% certain that the LLM was allowed to far more than merely breathe on this writing. And that's enough to get me complaining, because it makes it a real headache to read.)
- boxed 1mo agoI'm not a "lover" of AI, I'm just saying it's tiring when people scream AI all the time without proof.
- sfink 1mo agoBe grateful. I couldn't spot AI writing for a while, and I was suddenly enjoying reading clear and punchy text about all kinds of topics that people hadn't been talking much about. Then at some point it "clicked" and I was suddenly unable to not see it. Articles that I had thought sophisticated now came across to me as if they were written in crayon. Enjoy it while you still can! (And yes, the article here is very clearly AI written. Great content, written in crayon.)
- K0balt 1mo agoYeah, it is painful to me to read. I have to deal with enough in my work, which is almost 100 percent AI driven now.
- rustyminnow 1mo agoI'd sincerely love to see them