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its_notjack | 15 days ago

Is this post AI-written? The repeated lists with highlighted key points, the "it's not just [x], but [y]" and "no [a] just [b]" scream LLM to me. It would be good to know how much of this post and this project was human-built.

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zahlman|15 days ago

I was on the fence about such an identification. The first "list with highlighted key points" seemed quite awkward to me and definitely raised suspicion (the overall list doesn't have quite the coherence I'd expect from someone who makes the conscious choice; and the formatting exactly matches the stereotype).

But if this is LLM content then it does seem like the LLMs are still improving. (I suppose the AI flavour could be from Grammarly's new features or something.)

22c|14 days ago

> "The key insight is..."

This was either written by Claude or someone who uses Claude too much.

I wish they could be upfront about it.

Melonai|14 days ago

It's interesting... Different LLM models seem to have a few sentence structures that they seem to vastly overprefer. GPT seems to love "It's not just X, it's Y", Claude loves "The key insight is..." and Gemini, for me, in every second response, uses the phrase "X is the smoking gun". I hear the smoking gun phrase around 5 times a day at this point.

evanjrowley|15 days ago

Perhaps people have mimicked the style because LLMs have popularized it and clearly it serves some benefit to readers.

ludwik|15 days ago

Perhaps LLMs have mimicked the style because authors have popularized it and clearly it serves some benefit to readers.

PKop|15 days ago

> have popularized it

It's hated by everyone, why would people imitate it? You're inventing a rationale that either doesn't exist or would be stupider than the alternative. The obvious answer here it they just used an LLM.

> and clearly it serves some benefit to readers.

What?

mkoubaa|15 days ago

Life imitates art, even when that art is slop

scotty79|14 days ago

I love the style it was written in. I felt a bit like reading a detective novel, exploring all terrible things that happened and waiting for a plot twist and hero comming in and saving the day.

botusaurus|15 days ago

you know why LLMs repeat those patterns so much? because that's how real humans speak

Starlevel004|15 days ago

Real humans don't speak in LinkedIn Standard English

orbital-decay|14 days ago

No, they do it because they're mode-collapsed, use similar training algorithms (or even distillation on each other's outputs) and have a feedback loop based on scraping the web polluted with the outputs of previous gen models. This makes annoying patterns come and go in waves. It's pretty likely that in the next generation of models the "it's not just X, it's Y" pattern will disappear entirely, but another will annoy everyone.

This is purely an artifact of training and has nothing to do with real human writing, which has much better variety.

esseph|15 days ago

> Is this post AI-written?

What if it was?

What if it wasn't?

What if you never find out definitely?

Do you wonder that about all content?

If so, doesn't that get exhausting?

amenhotep|15 days ago

Yeah, it does. Congratulations, you figured out why the future is going to be fucking awful.

wizzwizz4|15 days ago

What's exhausting is getting through a ten-paragraph article and realising there was only two paragraphs of actual content, then having to wade back through it to figure out which parts came from the prompt, and which parts were entirely made up by the automated sawdust injector.

christianqchung|14 days ago

Have you noticed that your username is literally "its_notjack"?

efilife|15 days ago

I'm so fucking tired of this

iririririr|15 days ago

I last developed for windows in the late 90s.

I came back around 2017*, expecting the same nice experience I had with VB3 to 6.

What a punch in the face it was...

I honestly cannot fathom anyone developing natively for windows (or even OSX) at this day and age.

Anything will be a webapp or a rust+egui multi-plataform developed on linux, or nothing. It's already enough the amount of self-hate required for android/ios.

* not sure the exact date. It was right in the middle of the WPF crap being forced as "the new default".*

frankohn|14 days ago

I analyzed the test using Pangram, which is apparently reliable, it say "Fully human Written" without ambiguity.[1]

I personally like the content and the style of the article. I never managed to accept going through the pain to install and use Visual Studio and all these absurd procedures they impose to their users.

[1] https://www.pangram.com/history/300b4af2-cd58-4767-aced-c4d2...

OsrsNeedsf2P|14 days ago

This honestly just tells me that Panagram is hot garbage