I think there are some, who couldn't be a part of the public conversation, precisely because of they inability to add anything to said conversation.

LLMs enables them to post (or, rather, paste) something, in an attempt to trick others into believing they do have something to say.

They think they sound smart now, because LLMs are "very much the “stupid person’s idea of an intelligent person”"[1]

So now we are flooded with stupid people's attempts to show us how smart they are.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300763

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yoyohello13 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Wow! that comment you linked speaks to me. I was watching a review video for a game yesterday that was so obviously written by AI it was actually painful to listen to. I started reading the comments and there were several people praising this Youtuber on their great use of metaphor. Literally "subbed because you're such an amazing writer." It actually shook me to my core. If those were real people making those comments, there is no hope for us. I need to believe those were mostly bot comments just to maintain my sanity.

	▲	kennyadam 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		At least you didn’t over-react. Some people seem so afraid of consuming AI-generated content that they see it everywhere. A popular YouTuber says “thanks for the pushback” in a YouTube video and has the mob at his door, instantly, despite it not being written by AI. In the comments for any blog post or article that hits the HN front page, there is always someone confidently calling it out for being unmistakeably written by Claude. It’s so tiring. Let’s say the YouTube video that rocked the very foundation of your being was scripted with AI assistance. It was apparently good enough for people to praise it specifically. Why is that a problem? If it wasn’t AI, which may well be the case, would your soul be calmed?

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

I believe you've just described 95% of things posted to LinkedIn...

	▲	Quekid5 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		LinkedIn was overtaken by LLM nonsense at about the release of ChatGPT 3... I mean it was incredibly stupid and transparent engagement slop before that, but still. I remember talking to a business type who was so incredibly proud that GPT could turn his incredibly vapid thoughts into bland pointlessness on LinkedIn... not realizing that everyone in his feed was doing the same thing. We never did business with him for ... reasons, obviously :)

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andy99 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Sort of related, I always felt the apparent level of writing was so much higher in say the Victorian age. If you look at text from then it feels quite sophisticated compared to what you’d typically see written even in a newspaper today.

I think this is because only an elite few were literate and even fewer were writing stuff. As literacy increased, the common denominator got lower.

The next step in this evolution appears to be LLM writing, people will look back on pre 2023 writing with the same feeling as we look at the later 19th century now.

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