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Surprised to find no mention of "load-bearing" and "gated" particularly for Claude. In particular Opus 5 is scaling new heights of incomprehensibility with excessive metaphor-making, especially when it uses an existing word in the prompt or the code comments as a novel metaphor in an unrelated context.
I hate the em and en dash claims — some of us know how to use them!
It is one of the biggest turn offs and most of the times I end up giving it again to AI to summarise that into a format which is more readable.
Turing Syndrome (1): "The point which the amount of AI generated data on the internet surpasses human generated content, to the extent that it is impossible to distinguish between human and AI generated content.” The term is derived from the Turing test + Kessler syndrome This is distinct from the dead Internet theory (2) where humans can actually distinguish if a response is a bot. (1) https://kemendo.com/blog/turin…
And yes, I can see a slight change in my own style, where I am using more "not" statements (negative propositions). While there are some folks with higher integrity and greater immunity to this infection, I am seeing that I am not entirely immune.
However, I have probably generated more dialog with AI over two years than in most of my years altogether. I have well over 7GB of content, of course, much of it the interlocutor -- but similar to how some adopt expressions and accents when imbued in various environments, alas, I have with AI, to whatever extent has bypassed my efforts to resist. The bright side, if it can be viewed such, is that I have developed an involuntary sensitivity to AI writing, often to the point of paranoia and false positives.
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It's strange reading a piece of text, having one's AI-dar flag it, then noticing that it's a piece of writing from 10 years ago, and remembering that AI writes this way in part because these tells have all been popular in human writing in the recent past and beyond.
Hm, I've never had that happen to me, do you have any examples?
At some point, and I think the article hints at it, the real difference will be substance. No matter how it changes its writing style, a lot of problems with it are more about the fact that it usually says nothing. Even if it wrote like your favorite author, if there is no substance, there is no reward as a reader (maybe even as a writer). Overall, i think its kind of useless to think of ai writing as bad because of…
As a programmer I feel good while using AI to write code, ironically can't say the same when I read any documentation written by AI. It is one of the biggest turn offs and most of the times I end up giving it again to AI to summarise that into a format which is more readable.