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monegator 2 hours ago

It is exhausting to always have to read word salads with little content.

Every single fucking article with 20 lines of introduction before you get a chance for actual content. LLM slop then dilutes the information, and LLM slop always read the same way. You know, how easy it is to spot LLM generated content, it is actually refreshing when you can tell it's a human.

jrmg an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I feel like the whole internet is recipe sites now sometimes.

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

LLM content is so exasperating to read, it always reads like a student trying to pad out their paper, or like a press release with no details

voisin an hour ago | parent [-]

I think this is due to lazy prompting. It isn’t hard to get an LLM to write concisely, with a logical flow and to be direct with the point you want made. I’d rather read something an LLM has written in this manner than a lot of things I come across written by humans.

Regarding padding out word counts, I see this more often in newspapers and magazines than I do in AI-land. It’s like Netflix shows trying to meet an 8 or 10 episode minimum - horribly boring with unnecessary filler.

embedding-shape an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> It is exhausting to always have to read word salads with little content.

Agreed, but you know how others solve this problem? We close the tab, move on with our lives, without feeling the need to leave the generic "This seems like it was mostly written with LLMs" slopplaint HN comment.

monegator an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> We close the tab, move on with our lives

Which is what i usually do, but if in that moment i am particularly fed up with it i will also leave the comment.

Then there are more zealous combatant that will pollute all the slop posts

suddenlybananas an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Why is it okay for you to post a comment complaining about people posting comments complaining about AI posts? Why don't you just move on with your life instead of posting a complaint on HN about others' complaints?

feelamee 28 minutes ago | parent [-]

because 70 of 140 comments under this submission are owned by this thread about AI.

And this is usually not what you want when you click on an interesting submission

ImPostingOnHN 23 minutes ago | parent [-]

> because 70 of 140 comments under this submission are owned by this thread about AI.

This is an effect, rather than a cause. The root cause is often (but obviously not always) that the submission was written with AI to begin with. In instances like this, it is useful to focus on the root cause, not a proximal effect.

> And this is usually not what you want when you click on an interesting submission

More importantly, AI-generated output is usually not what you want when you click on what you thought would be an interesting submission.

In general, reading comments written by actual humans about how a submission is AI, is preferable to reading a long post written by AI. If I wanted to talk to AI, I can do that without HN. HN is where I come to discuss things with people.