hate how it all has the same tone now

owenthejumper 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

came to say this. it's the AI writing cadence, I can smell it from 1000ft: - Lots of "The" headings - Always "why it matters" - Machine gun style cadence of short sentences

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kandros 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

convergence that we see in all kind of medium when some things are considered “working better” (true or not)

AI writing takes these to an extreme but we have see the same happening everywhere even before AI

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i_think_so 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I hate that AI has stolen my emdashes and I can't use them without looking like slop. But I will die defending markdown as my preferred note taking format. They're not taking that away from me.

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IanCal 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I felt like this with the word delve. Seemed like nobody had ever heard the word before, and that the only possible way it’d be written was if an llm did it - but it’s just a nice word.

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SoftTalker 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Delve was used a lot in corporate writing. A lot of the so-called "whitepapers" that businesses like to publish to show how smart they are were ingested in training models.

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sleepybrett 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

the premiere golang debugger is called delve. Also you must not hang out w/ many ttrpgers.

	▲	IanCal 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I mean I use it and then it seemed like everyone was acting like it it was a weird llm only word.

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

How about not caring about what people on the internet say about your writing using emdashes?

They are a false positive signal for identifying AI texts anyway.

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g8oz 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Without markdown I don't even know who I would be anymore.

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wolttam 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Em dashes aren’t stolen, it’s still clear from the overall voice of the text if it’s AI written or not.

At least, in reasonably long sections of text. I find it can be hard to tell one way or the other in shorter texts (like comments)

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i_think_so 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Just on HN alone I think I've seen roughly 3948538902748750897520938 mentions of emdashes when others were complaining about slop in the past 2 months. It might as well be the unofficial slop logo. Folks are treating it like a dead giveaway.

I feel like a school friend of mine has been taken from me.

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twoodfin 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The real dead giveaway is that the writing is bad.

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

It’s just people who don’t read books outing themselves. Ignore.

	▲	dwedge 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Even bookz aee ruined for me now. I was reading careless people and hate all the emdashes even though in a book it's just normal

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DANmode 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921359

and the comments above it

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Groxx an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I can't tell if my main source of hate there is the homogeneity itself, or that it's excessively marketing-flavored (fluffy and aggrandizing, mere inches from "our incredible journey..." at all times).