> Maybe this article will be read by humans. Maybe it will be summarized by an AI into two polite lines for someone curious on the other side of the planet.

Maybe it was generated by an AI in the first place.

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alabut 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I get the impression a lot of people use ai to clean up writing when English isn’t their first language, which unfortunately means they can’t see the robotic generic tone it creates. E.g. the references to user groups in Buenos Aires.

One way they could maybe counteract it is approach it like code golf - can you use an LLM to make it much, much shorter? Because being overly verbose dilutes the handful of points you’re trying to make.

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ben_w 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> I get the impression a lot of people use ai to clean up writing when English isn’t their first language, which unfortunately means they can’t see the robotic generic tone it creates. E.g. the references to user groups in Buenos Aires.

At this point, so many things include it as a feature that this is probably the default. Like spellcheck and grammar check 26 years ago (memories of editing page 6 of my coursework only for everything to get a red squiggle underline at once because Word had randomly decided the entire thing was in a different language).

Today I keep finding I want to write "unironically" into HN comments, no, this is not the right word.

*My best guess* is that crudeness of various kinds is going to be a proof of humanity fairly soon. not just swearing but violent language and obscenities, nocap, slang, spell everifing a bit rong, and definitely no symbol you need a modifier key to reach (so these brackets are right out, but this also directly excludes caps because shift is a modifier key). Gen-Z-ers will be mocked by Gen Alpha for using emoji. That kind of thing.

	▲	alabut 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh yeah, we’re already there. In fact it’s a pre-ai thing too, where I saw a cyclist YouTuber explain how making thumbnails look too professional is an anti-signal. People often crave authenticity over production value.

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lbrito 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah I thought the same. The short sentences, like "The Web may become like IRC, FTP, Gopher, or BBSs. Not dead. Just smaller.", kind of gave that impression.

	▲	lwhi 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Unless the author's taking styling tips from AI prose.