If they can’t be bothered to write it, why should I be bothered to read it?
Tired meme. If you can't be bothered to think up an original idea, why bother to post?
It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
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Re: It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because it doesn’t just fix your grammar, it makes you sound suspiciously like spam.
Yeah. It's "pick your poison". If your English sounds broken, people will think poorly of your text. And if it sounds like LLM speak, they won't like it either. Not much you can do. (In a limited time frame.)
Lately I have more appreciation for broken English and short, to the point sentences than the 20 paragraph AI bullet point lists with 'proper' formatting.
Maybe someone will build an AI model that's succinct and to the point someday. Then I might appreciate the use a little more.
Re: It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
#63It's insulting but I also find it extremely concerning that my younger colleagues can't seem to tell the difference. An article will very clearly be AI slop and I'll express frustration, only to discover that they have no idea what I"m talking about.
I'd be curious to do a general study to see what percentage of humans can spot AI written content vs human written content on the same subject. Specifically is there any correlation between people who have always read a lot as I do and people who don't. My observation (anecdota) is that the people I know who read heavily are much better at and much more against AI slop vs people who don't read at all. Even when I've…
I agree, and I'm not sure why it feels off but I have a theory.
AI is good at local coherence, but loses the plot over longer thoughts (paragraphs, pages). I don't think I could identify AI sentences but I'm totally confident I could identify an AI book.
This includes both opening a large text in a way of thinking that isn't reflected several paragraphs later, and also maintaining a repetitive "beat" in the rhythm of writing that is fine locally but becomes obnoxious and repetitive over longer periods. Maybe that's just regression to the mean of "voice?"
Re: It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
#64It’s a clever post but people that use so to write personal blogposts ain’t gonna read this and change their mind. Only people who already hate using llms are gonna cheer you on.
But this kind of content is great for engagement farming on HN.
Just write “something something clankers bad”
While I agree with the author it’s a very moot and uninspired point
Re: It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
#65Typical black and white article to capitalize on I hate AI hype.
Super top articles with millions of readers are done with AI. It’s not an ai problem it’s the content. If it’s watery and no style tuned it’s bad. Same as human author
Re: It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know you can AI review the PR too, don't be such a curmudgeon. I have PR's at work I and coworkers fully AI generated and fully AI review. And
> You know you can AI review the PR too, don't be such a curmudgeon. I have PR's at work I and coworkers fully AI generated and fully AI review. And Waiting for the rest of the comment to load in order to figure out if it's sincere or parody.
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Re: It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
#67I don't get all this complaining, TBH. I have been blogging for over 25 years (20+ on the same site), been using em dashes ever since I switched to a Mac (and because the Markdown parser I use converts double dashes to it, which I quite like when I'm banging out text in vim), and have made it a point of running long-form posts through an LLM asking it to critique my text for readability because I have a tendency for very long sentences/passages.
AI is a tool to help you _finish_ stuff, like a wood sander. It's not something you should use as a hacksaw, or as a hammer. As long as you are writing with your own voice, it's just better autocorrect.
Re: It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
#68It's similarly insulting to read your AI-generated pull request. If I see another "dart-on-target" emoji... You're telling me I need to use 100% of my brain, reasoning power, and time to go over your code, but you didn't feel the need to hold yourself to the same standard?
You know you can AI review the PR too, don't be such a curmudgeon. I have PR's at work I and coworkers fully AI generated and fully AI review. And
did AI write this comment?
Re: It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah the portcullis to the philosophical topic of, “if you couldn’t tell, does that demonstrate that authenticity doesn’t matter?”
I think it does, We could get a robotic arm to paint in the style of a Dutch master but it'd not be a Dutch master. I'd sooner have a ship painting from the little shop in the village with the little old fella who paints them in the shop than a perfect robotic simulacrum of a Rembrandt. Intention matters but it matters less sometimes but I think it matters. Writing is communication, it's one of the things we as human…
That's also why in The Matrix (1999) the main character takes the red pill (facing grim reality) rather than the blue pill (forgetting about grim reality and going back to a happy illusion).
Re: It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
#70It's similarly insulting to read your AI-generated pull request. If I see another "dart-on-target" emoji... You're telling me I need to use 100% of my brain, reasoning power, and time to go over your code, but you didn't feel the need to hold yourself to the same standard?
You know you can AI review the PR too, don't be such a curmudgeon. I have PR's at work I and coworkers fully AI generated and fully AI review. And
So how do you catch the errors that AI made in the pull request? Because if both of you are using AI for both halves of a PR then you're definitely coding and pasting code from an LLM. Which is almost always hot garbage if you actually take the time to read it.