Because it's only half true. Yeah we've used phrases like those before, but if you ignore certain very specific phrases or characters for a moment, a lot of the more ambiguous things people are identifying as AI-speak comes from mixing jargon from different domains in a way humans normally don't do. Like the short punchy sentences are from marketing, not comments or technical writing like they've started showing up in.

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ChrisMarshallNY 2 days ago | parent [-]

So John Nagle is an AI.

Huh. Never would have guessed it, in a million years...

To be fair, "Famous person accused of being an AI," was on my bingo card. It was inevitable for this kind of embarrassing mistake to happen.

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Izkata 2 days ago | parent [-]

Or at least he's being unintentionally influenced by it. Just out of curiosity I jumped a few years back in his comments looking for that pattern, and I don't really see it.

By pure luck I even landed on a comment that uses that same word with a similar sentiment, except back then he wrote it as a full non-punchy sentence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31414288

	▲	cbolton a day ago \| parent [-]
		Isn't it a bit arrogant to pass judgement with such confidence based on a three word sentence? Anyway maybe this will convince you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25948632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24862016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11943786