The purpose isn't information, the purpose is drama.
Er, sorry. I meant: the purpose isn't just drama—it's a declaration of values, a commitment to the cause of a higher purpose, the first strike in a civilizational war of independence standing strong against commercialism, corporatism, and conformity. What starts with a single sentence in an LLM-rewritten blog post ends with changing the world.
See? And I didn't even need an LLM to write that. My own brain can produce slop with an em dash just as well. :)
Humans invented writing, not LLMs. They are copying us not the other way around. You can’t jump on 1 sentence that vaguely sounds like an LLM and say it’s written by AI. It’s so silly. I understand the aversion to AI slop but this is not that.
people run on heuristics and no amount of our righteousness will change that. the entire article absolutely reeks of LLM style so the original commentor isnt off the mark. to address your point, LLMs are copying that which leads to the most human engagement, so the way you expressed things makes it seem like you are defending junk food as real food. which of course it is, however it is designed to make someone money at the cost of human health. that's not something i'd be defending personally.
cmovq|14 days ago
“This isn’t just [what the thing literally is]; it’s [hyperbole on what the thing isn’t].”
iainmerrick|14 days ago
In the UK, Marks and Spencer have a long-running ad campaign built around it (“it’s not just food, it’s...”)
Em dashes are fine too.
crazygringo|14 days ago
Er, sorry. I meant: the purpose isn't just drama—it's a declaration of values, a commitment to the cause of a higher purpose, the first strike in a civilizational war of independence standing strong against commercialism, corporatism, and conformity. What starts with a single sentence in an LLM-rewritten blog post ends with changing the world.
See? And I didn't even need an LLM to write that. My own brain can produce slop with an em dash just as well. :)
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