It’s not X. It’s Y.

Multiple times, over and over.

We need to stop with the AI stuff.

Tip for those who want to skip shit like this, excessive headings glued together by bullet points is quicker to spot, especially since the headings almost always start with "The".

I now scroll any AI-adjacent article I see and just read headings and if I see this I know what I'm getting into:

The Dexterity Deadlock

The Problem

The Geometric Curse

The Sim-to-Real Gap

The Structural Gap f(⋅)

Seeing It in Motion

The N^2 Impedance Mismatch

The Chaos Term ϵchaos

The Information Wall

The Weakest Link

Why Manipulation Needs Better

What We Built

From 288 to 15

Does It Work?

Hardware Validation

Robot Hand Landscape

The Take-Home

Oh my god, it's absolutely chock full of AI-isms. Almost every sentence is a list of 3 items, often nested lists of 3 items.

The authors presumably don't have English as their first language.

Deciding whether A is an X or a Y is a really basic part of why we're all communicating. Suspicion of em dashes is one thing, but once you start getting nervous on seeing "It’s not X. It’s Y." then you're just going to get paranoid.

The fundamentals of an LLM is to statistically match their output with the corpus. The tics they have are really common in natural human usage too.

I think they did a search-and-replace to turn em dashes into semicolons in an attempt to hide the AI. Weird usage of semicolons.

Even the title follows a common LLM pattern (The X Problem/Issue/etc).

Plus a bunch of other elements that are dead giveaways.

In this day and age, I wish people would ask any model OTHER than ChatGPT to rewrite their shit. At least we'd get a different flavor of slop.

Once I became aware of this AI slop pattern, I can't stop seeing it everywhere.

While it’s got some clear LLM patterns, the content seems novel enough to be worth the squeeze. That or I’m far enough outside of my Gell-Mann amnesia bubble that I can’t see the slop