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nojvek a day ago

I am so tired of reading AI generated/assisted articles with AI speak in them.

Reads like a human, and then the more you read, the AI-fluff appears. Not X, Y blah blah blah.

You could have human written it with your words in half the words. Been more authentic.

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_vertigo 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This post does not read like LLM output though

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iLemming a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Look at the name. The author is unlikely to be well-versed in English prose. I'm quite certain you wouldn't like their "authentic" writing more than you hate their AI-assisted one.

ps. I just read the whole article. It is fine and it doesn't look like it was written with sloppy vibes. Honestly, you're complaining just for the sake of it. The amount of whining about AI-slop is getting more exhausting than the problem itself.

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snovymgodym a day ago | parent [-]

What, a guy with a Slavic name couldn't possibly write good English?

Even so, I've read a lot of stuff written by ESLs over the years and far too much stuff written by LLMs over the past 3 years, and I will take ESL every single time.

Regarding the actual content, I'm sorry, but this post is complete slop. From individual sentences to the outline of the post itself; e.g. "The Depth Problem", "The Empathy Gap", and so on. This straight reads like someone gave bullet points to Gemini and said "write me a blogpost".

Maybe you haven't had the misfortune of being completely inundated with LLM generated drivel at your place of work, but this writing has all the hallmarks of it.

It's trite at this point, but the aphorism holds true: "If you can't be bothered to take the effort to write it, why should I bother to read it?"

	▲	iLemming a day ago \| parent [-]
		> [they] couldn't possibly write good English? Perhaps they could, but let's not make generalized assumptions. I don't know about you, but for me English is not a second, nor even a third language, and for people like me it is absolutely beautiful yet a supple and extremely nuanced tool for thought expression. I wouldn't risk unleashing the naked nature of my prose on anyone, it may not be easy on the eye - I liberally use all the tools I have in my text editor - spellchecking, thesauri, dictionaries and translation, etymology lookup and yes, LLMs as well. Would you complain that my texts overuse synonyms and that's just "annoying"? You're honestly acting like some impetuous child demanding that the world revolve around them and their likes and dislikes. You're asking for a "human connection", while at the same time granting them zero empathy for their effort - however sloppy it was. The choice is yours - nobody's forcing you to read it. Shitting all over someone's (no matter how small) genuine work is disingenuous, not to mention that it is pointless zero sum - nobody gets any kind of satisfaction, none of the involved parties learn anything new. For me, the article didn't "speak much" at all; I'm not defending its value. For someone it may feel different - I quickly went over it and that was all. I (like many of us) have been very inundated with LLM-generated texts, but frankly, people seem to eagerly label just about anything as AI-slop. It is getting more exhausting than simply dealing with text. Sorry, but we can't uninvent the damn thing back into the hellhole we found it in. Let's try to be nicer to each other in this brand new world.