This is incredibly normal language and quite close to how I would write this quote, so what makes you think this is LLM text?

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dd8601fn 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've had the same thought pretty often, lately.

I get it... I'm not a good writer. It just sucks that now people are going to assume the stuff I said isn't even me.

I guess I always scored pretty low on the Turing test and never even knew it.

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dwringer 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The other replies have explained what's jumping out but I'd agree that without the other surrounding sentences of the article's introduction I'd be inclined to think that quoted sentence by itself might be human. The full text, however, doubles down on the AI-smelling constructions and IMHO almost certainly indicates some AI provenance.

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cyral 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It might be normal language but lets say maybe 5% of real human blog writers use short punchy phrases like that. The noticeable problem is now its 50% of blog posts because almost every single AI authored post uses the same phrasing, it's tiring knowing you are just reading ChatGPT output. Its usually part of a low-effort funnel to guide you to some product/service.

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antonyt 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is it actually stylistically close to how you'd write it? If I reformulate your comment in slop style I'd do something like:

The language is natural. Normal. Human. Who could question its authenticity?

The original example isn't the worst offender, but even small offenders stick out when you can't escape seeing this kind of thing everywhere.

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GavinMcG 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s the fake drama. Punchy sentences. Contrast. And then? A banal payoff.

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slfnflctd 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Human journalists and marketing copy writers have been writing like this for at least 50 years, if not considerably longer.

I am exhausted by so many people calling writing out as AI without sufficient proof other than writing style. Some things are more obvious, sure... maybe I'm just too stupid to see a lot of the rest of it? But so much of what gets called out seems incredibly familiar to me compared with traditional print media I've been reading my entire life.

I'm starting to wonder if a lot of people just have poor literacy skills and are knee-jerk labeling anything that looks well written as AI.

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fleebee 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You're right that (some) marketing copy writers have been writing in this style for decades, but suddenly every second tech blogger has assumed the same voice in the past 2 years. Not everyone is as sensitive to it. I read this crap daily so I've developed an awareness and I'm confident in calling it out.

I don't think I've personally seen a single false positive on HN. If anything, too much slop goes through uncontested.

	▲	cyral 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> If anything, too much slop goes through uncontested. It's actually insane opening up /r/webdev and similar subreddits and seeing dozens of AI authored posts with 50+ comments and maybe a single person calling it out. Makes me feel crazy. It's not as much of a problem here, but there is absolutely a writing style that suddenly 50% of submissions are using. It's always to promote something and watching people fall for it over and over again is upsetting.

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ocimbote 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You're absolutely right.

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kitsune1 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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nojs 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s 100% LLM text. HN really needs a button “flag as slop”.