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Claude's writing style has me on edge

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Re: Claude's writing style has me on edge

#14
> Everything I read these days may have been written by Claude, so I’m constantly trying to determine if what I’m reading is or isn’t

I think it's even worse: There are also people who did write the original posts themselves, but then used AI to "polish" the style - i.e. reformulate a perfectly legitimate post as slop.

So even if you're reading obvious slop, you can't be sure if it's actual slop or a human writer "pretending" to be AI (because they haven't got the memo yet that is style is now a negative signifier, not a positive one)

Re: Claude's writing style has me on edge

#15

its way too good at using the markers of having something to say, the sorts of things a professor might use after a period of lengthy explanation to make you snap back to attention and listen because this; This right here is the really juicy bit: but theres nothing there. Its using it to talk about whatever mundane thing you asked it to, with perfect neutrality and no substance at all. I refer you to one of my favori…

Thanks for sharing that comment, it's excellent. I love the use of "midwife" in the last sentence. Claude would never!

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