I had the same reaction, but the article is not AI-generated according to pangram, which I've generally found reliable. I wonder if LLM turns of phrase and even thought patterns are creeping into normal human thought.

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Zetaphor 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's worth mentioning pangram is more confident in it's positive detections than it's negative ones, as stated by the founder in an interview on the most recent ThursdAI episode

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

Or, stay with me here, the LLMs were trained on how we, statistically, write.

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unignorant 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There are typical LLM voices and styles, just like human writers have differentiated voices and styles. And some common elements of the typical LLM style are distinct from humans I've previously read.

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erikerikson 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I recognize this. It's also the case that I suspect that I've read more about how annoying suspected LLM output is to read than I have read LLM output. The slop is, to me, an incredibly unwelcome contribution of humans that don't enjoy the craft but complaining about it is equally stuck in and further exacerbating the froth rather than distilling down to the substance. That is it keeps the focus on the surface rather than on what the core content is and whether it has value.

	▲	grey-area 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		LLM writing doesn’t have substance, it’s statistically likely text generated from some bullet points, without intention or style.

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donaldjbiden 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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shiveenp 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Anytime I see “this is not just x, it’s y” i can almost guarantee with high degree of confidence that slop was used.

	▲	jdw64 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		As someone from outside the Anglophone cultural sphere, when I first learned to write in English, the kind of writing that AI now often produces was taught to me as “formal" writing. But these days, when I write in that formal style, people sometimes say it sounds like AI. That has been a difficult and frustrating point for me. I still find the subtle difference hard to understand.
	▲	zbentley 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I'm still pissed that I had to practice removing that from my writing habits. I liked that device, dammit!
	▲	yuye 19 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's not just AI-generated, it's also slop!

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pizzly 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think its bidirectional. We change our writing based on what we see (AI generated content on the internet) and AI will learn based on what we write.