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Re: Integrated by Design

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Post by The_Blade » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 3:27 AM UTC

GaryBluto wrote: post #16

CrociDB wrote: post #7

This looks AI Slop. At first the style of the site and the cover of the book were a bit suspicious, but then digging a bit further: - Domain was registered in February this year: https://www.whois.com/whois/vivianvoss.net - Web archive has only a couple snapshots before this year, and it seemed to belong to an "Elite Escort": https://web.archive.org/web/20160515000000*/https://vivianvo... - All his other domains are…

LinkedIn profile picture is oddly smooth and has the OpenAI signature yellow hue, although it could just be an odd touch-up. https://www.linkedin.com/in/vvoss/

upon further review, this is a complete LLM-driven attempt at trying to be AI Banksy

aside from the complete lack of background like he's Jobriath except without talent, it isn't hard to find festering boils like the UN link (https://www.un.org/en/observances/book-and-copyright-day) being a sham coming from Russia

Re: Integrated by Design

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Post by raincole » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 4:01 AM UTC

bigmattystyles wrote: post #24

myth_drannon wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author is quite prolific. Basically a blog post per day for the last couple of months!

To me, that actually screams LLM. At the very least much LLM assisted.

Everything about this blog and author screams AI-generated. See below comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929213 (it's downvote-brigaded)

Re: Integrated by Design

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Post by dheatov » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 5:35 AM UTC

jm4 wrote: post #26

dheatov wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for pointing out. So close to buying it. Would appreciate more disclosure regarding the use of hostile technology.

Why would you listen to some fool’s baseless speculation?

I did not see any based counterargument that addresses my concern.

Re: Integrated by Design

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Post by thread_id » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 5:54 AM UTC

john37386 wrote: post #4

I started to read the blog post and got lost trying to shoot down all these aliens falling down from space. It's really a nice game integrated in the webpage. I was able to double my canon and even get a bigger blue laser. I wonder how much more weapon upgrades there is. Awesome game inside this blog.

Totally awsome game!!!! What was the site about?

Re: Integrated by Design

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Post by nine_k » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 5:55 AM UTC

dontdoxxme wrote: post #2

The style of the blog post, with short, abrupt sentences does not captivate me. I’d like to think someone writing a book has a more interesting writing style. Or maybe LLMs have damaged me and I’m too critical of writing style now, whatever it is this doesn’t sell the book to me.

Ever read Hemingway? Short, abrupt sentences. Sometimes incomplete. Observations with invisibly attached emotions. Their rhythm. Reader's imagination completes the picture like no author could.

A powerful style, merely sixty years old.

Re: Integrated by Design

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Post by raincole » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #35

dontdoxxme wrote: post #2

The style of the blog post, with short, abrupt sentences does not captivate me. I’d like to think someone writing a book has a more interesting writing style. Or maybe LLMs have damaged me and I’m too critical of writing style now, whatever it is this doesn’t sell the book to me.

Ever read Hemingway? Short, abrupt sentences. Sometimes incomplete. Observations with invisibly attached emotions. Their rhythm. Reader's imagination completes the picture like no author could. A powerful style, merely sixty years old.

Peak HN moment: comparing AI-generated text to Hemingway.

Re: Integrated by Design

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Post by nine_k » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 6:08 AM UTC

dheatov wrote: post #21

CrociDB wrote: post #7

This looks AI Slop. At first the style of the site and the cover of the book were a bit suspicious, but then digging a bit further: - Domain was registered in February this year: https://www.whois.com/whois/vivianvoss.net - Web archive has only a couple snapshots before this year, and it seemed to belong to an "Elite Escort": https://web.archive.org/web/20160515000000*/https://vivianvo... - All his other domains are…

Thanks for pointing out. So close to buying it. Would appreciate more disclosure regarding the use of hostile technology.

What makes the technology (apparently the use of LLMs) hostile? Asking unironically; I try to understand fellow humans better.

Re: Integrated by Design

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Post by estetlinus » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 6:10 AM UTC

dontdoxxme wrote: post #2

The style of the blog post, with short, abrupt sentences does not captivate me. I’d like to think someone writing a book has a more interesting writing style. Or maybe LLMs have damaged me and I’m too critical of writing style now, whatever it is this doesn’t sell the book to me.

Two paragraphs in and I have no idea what they’re selling me. A timeline on how to write a book? A font? A solution to a problem? Just casual lording? AI slop at its finest.

Re: Integrated by Design

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Post by nine_k » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 6:13 AM UTC

raincole wrote: post #36

nine_k wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ever read Hemingway? Short, abrupt sentences. Sometimes incomplete. Observations with invisibly attached emotions. Their rhythm. Reader's imagination completes the picture like no author could. A powerful style, merely sixty years old.

Peak HN moment: comparing AI-generated text to Hemingway.

You can ask your favorite LLMs to imitate Hemingway; I suppose they'd be comparably successful.

What you see as "AI-generated" looks more like translation, or written in English by a non-native speaker. The author is German, it appears.

Re: Integrated by Design

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Post by woolion » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 6:22 AM UTC

dontdoxxme wrote: post #2

The style of the blog post, with short, abrupt sentences does not captivate me. I’d like to think someone writing a book has a more interesting writing style. Or maybe LLMs have damaged me and I’m too critical of writing style now, whatever it is this doesn’t sell the book to me.

At this point I've become paranoid of my own writing. The LLM style seems to have become worse with time, more formatted, having only a few syntactic template it forces everything to go through. So that spurred me to write a lot more write-ups and blogposts that were laying around. But now I'm reading my own lines wondering if that feels AI? The only thing I can be sure of are my ESL-isms, and my convoluted, unending, extremely hard to parse sentences that would just deter people from reading.