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| ▲ | hasteg a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| I agree that LLMs can make good points and defend their arguments, but if I'm talking (or debating) with someone online and it's obvious that they are just responding with LLM output, it immediately discredits them in my mind and is a pretty clear indicator that the actual person doesn't have a good understanding of what they're talking about... and I can go argue with an LLM myself. If I'm on reddit for example and someone starts obviously posting verbatim LLM output, there's no point to really continue to engage or read. I'm not saying it's wrong to use AI in these situations, but IMO, I'd at least expect the person using it to at least read the output and then use it to synthesize their own response in their own words. Literally copy and pasting a LLM output verbatim just signals to me that the person using it doesn't have the capability themselves take information and use it to formulate an opinion/idea/argument/whatever on the given topic. I'm interested in talking to the person, not an LLM.... I can go prompt the LLM about whatever topic myself. |
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| ▲ | tfirst a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| if the argument is good enough, it should be worth writing on your own. |
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| ▲ | quantummagic a day ago | parent | next [-] | | If the argument is good enough, it worth ignoring who/what the author is. | | |
| ▲ | kazinator a day ago | parent [-] | | If you can tell that it was a "what", it's not good enough. | | |
| ▲ | quantummagic 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Why? An argument stands on its own, regardless of origin. If it's poorly written, by someone who is say a non-native speaker, it can still be a VALUABLE and VALID argument. It would be racist to dismiss an argument because it was poorly written by a non-native speaker. "Racism" against a computer is just as ignorant and petty. |
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| ▲ | CuriouslyC a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | If your job is important enough, it should be worth jogging to. | | |
| ▲ | GPerson a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I’d jog around the world for a job about now. | |
| ▲ | phoghed a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | > obese American can’t fathom ambulating to work I wish my office was in jogging distance tbh |
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| ▲ | indemnity a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I’m a heavy LLM user but if someone gives me an AI-voice argument and presents it as their own, I reflexively dismiss everything they say going forward. I can prompt the LLM myself thanks. |
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| ▲ | bicepjai a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Hahaha, heavily down voted. Thanks
I made a human written statement about this terse shit-post in another post :)
Basically the argument is if human thought was transformed using an llm into a terse argument, don’t nit pick it, debate the argument and don’t attack the llm transformed human thought https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339035 > Totally agree with the core argument. I understand there must be some etiquette in the space of llm-writing where writers must respect the readers enough to edit and review. Also, pages and pages of LLM content is not something anyone should be proud about sharing. But we are in this world where condensing an argument is so easy that in the busy lives we live, sometimes some arguments are made with LLMs online. If those arguments are pages, I understand the backlash, but if it’s a terse argument, then I would urge others to address the argument made rather than categorizing them under AI;DR, it’s like ad-llminem in my view. |
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| ▲ | polotics a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Can you give us one example of something which does suffer from slop's massive bloat of wordage and vapid breathless formulations but is still useful as is? |
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| ▲ | phoghed a day ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, certainly. Just asked a bunch of questions yesterday to ChatGPT about 3d printing since I bought one without knowing much about them, then had it generate a few STLs that I used for spacing some hexagonal acoustic dampening felt tiles I hung today. Also did a bit of back and forth planning for a little web app that I could experiment with different tile layouts since I had a few colors. Then it made the app and it was very handy. I asked if a few questions about the hexagon layout too since it was interesting. All very useful slop exactly as it was. |
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| ▲ | AlexandrB a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm not dismissing the argument, I'm refusing to read a bunch of filler for an idea that (I'm guessing) could fit into 140 characters. Brevity is the soul of wit. |
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| ▲ | thewebguyd a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| We also need to stop immediately dismissing certain writing tropes as being automatically LLM generated. I'm re-reading an older fantasy series, and the amount of em-dashes in the text and similar tropes (you know, normal good writing) would easily be called out as "AI Slop" on this very forum, even though it was written in the early 90s. |
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| ▲ | rhdunn a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Look at even older writing and you'll see em-dashes there too: Edgar Allan Poe, Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Brontës, among others. > “No, reprobate! you are a castaway—be off, or I’ll hurt you seriously! I’ll have you all modelled in wax and clay! and the first who passes the limits I fix shall—I’ll not say what he shall be done to—but, you’ll see! Go, I’m looking at you!” -- Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter 2, Emily Brontë. I wonder what the frequency of AI common words like delve and other words/phrases are in Project Gutenberg, Wikipedia, and other collections. | |
| ▲ | AlexandrB a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think that's fair. Em-dashes are pretty innocuous and I think technically correct regardless. What bothers me is all the filler in AI writing that just makes it longer and harder to read. I'm actually not that bothered by the idea of AI writing, but don't waste my time and patience with all these "not X, but Y" digressions thrown in for flavour. Get to the bloody point. | | |
| ▲ | thewebguyd a day ago | parent [-] | | I suspect the filler comes from RHLF and the amount of web marketing content that was ingested. "Not X, but Y" is all over marketing copy, as is the triad of concepts "By doing X, Y, and Z...." because it mimics TED-talk style rhetoric, it gets rated highly because people think it sounds profound. So optimizing for what appears to be helpful ends up just creating a bunch of corporate-speak sounding garbage. Plain, direct language gets selected against during post-training leaving us with slop. |
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| ▲ | kazinator a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > We are at a point where we cannot dismiss an argument because it was written using LLM No we aren't. |
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| ▲ | mpalmer a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It's a 400 word post stretched to over 6000 words, you go find the argument. |