This is just good writing. The kind that AI is meant to emulate. Alas we're at an age where writing well is identical to writing like a machine.

I suggest polite rebellion. Write well. Get better than the machines.

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jihadjihad an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> This is just good writing. The kind that AI is meant to emulate. Alas we're at an age where writing well is identical to writing like a machine.

Literally none of these statements are true.

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hndc 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But it's bad writing, as GP points out. The second paragraph is particularly confusing—its central metaphor is clumsy (in my experience LLMs struggle with metaphors).

That said, maybe it's an artifact of being machine-translated from the original Russian.

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grey-area 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is terrible writing, and if you can't tell, there is something deeply wrong.

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_verandaguy an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Parts of this read like the early internal monologue sections of Cryptonomicon. Terrible or not, it's distinctive.

	▲	grey-area an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Having used Claude a fair bit, it reads like the very distinct style Claude settles on when it tries to write fiction. I mean it's hugely improved from the early attempts of LLMs to create fiction (remember the adverbs!), but it's still pretty awful.

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the_af 25 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> This is terrible writing, and if you can't tell, there is something deeply wrong.

This is subjective. Countless times in the history of human literature a piece of writing has been called garbage -- or at least, flawed -- by some authority, only to later become lauded as a great piece of writing. So not being able to tell (or in this case, to match your own taste) is simply par for the course.

Remember all that's been written about Shakespeare's Hamlet and his use of mixed metaphors, "[...] or to take arms against a sea of troubles [...]". What? How do you take arms against the sea? And why was it before "slings and arrows", what does that have to do with the sea? Mixed metaphors are a sin, etc, etc.