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Is "quietly" an LLM tell? It was always certainly a human writer trope commonly seen in journalism. Though I guess it does appear five times in the body of the
by happytoexplain 5d ago
Is "quietly" an LLM tell? It was always certainly a human writer trope commonly seen in journalism. Though I guess it does appear five times in the body of the post, and a human writer would probably not go that far with it.
- embedding-shape 5d agoI think individually and when used sparingly, writing tropes can be fine, but when the article has every second sentence being a writing trope, it becomes pretty obvious that either a LLM wrote it, or the author simply doesn't know how to write, and regardless, it's a waste of time trying to read through it.
- duskdozer 5d agoIt genuinely is--and that's the honest truth.
- AlexandrB 5d agoThe real LLM tell is tortured and inappropriate metaphors and unnecessary adjectives and adverbs[1]. What purpose is "quietly" serving in this headline? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORgKY9AlybA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORgKY9AlybA
- meowface 5d agoIn this sort of way, yes, it's a clue. Obviously not dispositive just by itself.