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| ▲ | zackkrida 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| language, structure. look how much negation there is. the construction "no A, no B, no, C" is used several times. or another example, the following sentence: "handlers/ is flat — no subdirectories" who writes like this? you'd just write "handlers/ is a flat folder" or similar. |
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| ▲ | usui 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I often see replies to AI-generated posts being pointed out here asking what makes it obvious. Is it that difficult to notice the indicators? Is it mostly undetected by English-as-a-second-language speakers, people inexperienced with generative AI, or is it something else? |
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| ▲ | vidarh 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I rather think the surprise is a result of technical users wildly overestimating how obvious these markers are to people. |
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| ▲ | haunter 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing |
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| ▲ | petercooper 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "it doesn't silently go unnoticed", "would be silently inert", "instead of silently overwriting", "you can never silently overwrite" The biggest tell for me is overuse of the term "silently". "quietly" is another one you often see from Claude in particular. Models love adverbs for whatever reason, whereas a human writer would use them in moderation for emphasis or prefer terms like "by accident". |
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| ▲ | ameliaquining an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | In my experience, "silently overwrite" appeared regularly in technical writing long before LLMs were a thing, because it's a useful concept to be able to point at. "Silently go unnoticed" is kind of redundant, though. | |
| ▲ | IanCal 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Accidental things and silent things are very different. Accidental means you didn't mean to do it, silent means you don't know you've done it (or might not if you want to get picky, you could notice). |
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| ▲ | dools 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Have you ever “wired” anything to anything else when developing software? No, because software doesn’t involve wires, but LLMs are quite convinced that it does. |
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| ▲ | ameliaquining an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Confirmed AI: https://www.pangram.com/history/2c717a3e-a9c6-4595-96a0-1aa8... |
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| ▲ | fakeBeerDrinker 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Possibly the excessive use of em dashes. Just a guess. |
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| ▲ | mohammedmsgm 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | This is so obvious The most AI generated MD in existence. It's also th excessive use of bold, only AI can make bold hard to read. | | |
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| ▲ | stavros 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I can't quite tell you, it wasn't something specific, Claude's writing is just a specific sort of punchy. The "directly on X - no Y, no Z, no A" and the "this is the part you no longer have to do" just smell a lot like Claude. Also "removes that layer entirely", "they map cleanly onto each other", it's all just Claude. It's how you see a painting and you know it's by Picasso, let's say, or you read an author and you know it's Hemingway. Everyone has their own unique style, and so does Claude. It's just that Claude is the most prolific writer in human history now. |
