is this supposed to be an example of bad writing because unnecessary bombast is definitely a sign of it

good writing is not just replacing random words with entries from thesaurus.com, it's writing for your reader. that's one thing LLM-generated text is very bad at - frequently violates the show-don't-tell rule, it lacks any interiority by it's very nature, etc

if you don't practice writing yourself, you don't develop the muscle of knowing what your reader's expectations are and you will forever remain a mediocre writer

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NetMageSCW 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How do you know who the intended readers of that comment were?

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paimapi 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I assume myself and others like me since it is being posted on a forum where each and every comment has not only an audience but a points-based rating system

Regardless of authorial intent, everything posted here is for the wider HN audience

	▲	handoflixue 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I will concede I had assumed a more educated audience, which could pick out reference to a particular linguistic style, rather than confusing it for a wild joy ride through thesaurus.com Conversely, if you yourself write solely for points, then you might as well be a machine - for all reasonable virtues of truth, community, and free expression will find themselves at odds with such petty incentives. I am happy to lose a karma or two to speak my own mind, rather than playing puppet for your upvote.

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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It reads as an example of English writing that was once considered "proper". The point I see is that it shows how this complaint about AI writing is history rhyming with itself again.

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SR2Z 9 hours ago | parent [-]

There is a difference between objections to style and objections to clarity and conciseness. My complaint with AI isn't that it's not formal enough, it's that there's so much bullshit and so little content in AI-generated blocks of text.

	▲	handoflixue 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"Slop" is generally meant as a derogatory label against anything in the AI vernacular - it is not an objection to clarity, it is a repudiation of the idea of using AI for writing at all. It's the same tired game we play, as a society, any time a new writing style enters the mainstream. That game goes back to at least Shakespeare's era, where our illustrious bard was called out for his tendency to make up words ("fashionable" being, I believe, an actual example of this?)