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 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.)

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evanjrowley 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	ludwik an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Perhaps LLMs have mimicked the style because authors have popularized it and clearly it serves some benefit to readers.
	▲	mkoubaa 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Life imitates art, even when that art is slop

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botusaurus 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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Starlevel004 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Real humans don't speak in LinkedIn Standard English

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swiftcoder 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

"LinkedIn Standard English" is just the overly-enthusiastic marketing speak that all the wannabe CEOs/VCs used to spout. LLMs had to learn it somewhere

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chuckadams an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

LinkedIn and its robotic tone existed long before generative AI.

Know what's more annoying than AI posts? Seeing accusations of AI slop for every. last. god. damned. thing.

	▲	IshKebab an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yes that's the point. LLMs pretty much speak LinkedInglish. That existed before LLMs, but only on LinkedIn. So if you see LinkedInglish on LinkedIn, it may or may not be an LLM. Outside of LinkedIn... probably an LLM. It is curious why LLMs love talking in LinkedInglish so much. I have no idea what the answer to that is but they do.

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cookiengineer 35 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> LinkedIn Standard English

We need a dictionary like this :D

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ndtimes an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

marketing people did have a tendency to be more bombastic and self aggrandizing than average, speaking pompous but devoid of meaning shit but normal people most definitely not speak like this:

> The build.bat above isn’t just a helper script; it’s a declaration of independence from the Visual Studio Installer

this is 100% GPT slop, you can even tell it's GPT specifically from the fact that it has a ; instead of — because the recent models were trained to use the emdash less and put a semicolon in the same places it used to throw emdashes in the past.

GPT-4o would have done

>The build.bat above isn’t just a helper script—it’s a declaration of independence from the Visual Studio Installer

>you know why LLMs repeat those patterns so much

Unlike you, I do know why LLMs can fall into repeating certain patterns and it most definitely has nothing to do with "how humans speak". The better the model (as a tool) the more it has been trained on artificially generated data that teaches it the "proper" way to do tasks. Instruction tuned models have nothing to do with the original release of GPT-3, they were their own thing ever since the release of chatGPT itself.

You can control what sort of patterns it falls into and this is why if you had any ability to notice things as a human being you would have seen how newer GPT generated content has less emdash spam even when the human generating the content doesn't bother touching up the text.

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efilife 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm so fucking tired of this

	▲	iririririr an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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".*

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esseph 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> 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 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, it does. Congratulations, you figured out why the future is going to be fucking awful.