alt Hacker NewsYeah the “No _____. No _____. Just the ______.” is such a dead ringer for AI writing these days that I just ignore any writing that features it.
If you don’t care about your craft as a writer to the extent that you can’t even realize how straight-out-of-a-LLM your writing sounds, I’m not going to care about it either.
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So writers / publications should change their writing style because LLMs have adopted it?
How do you draw the conclusion that the writer doesn't care about their craft though? If someone uses an emdash, but spent three hours and a ton of effort on a three paragraph comment and some of that time was spent running it through ChatGPT to hone their point so it comes across better, does that invalidate the point they're trying to make? Should we start documenting how long it took to write something, regardless of if an LLM was used in some capacity to help write something instead?
Every time I see people talking about this, I see new alleged LLM fingerprints. Keeping up with that is a significant burden, especially without a centralized place to easily find an up to date list. This is even harder for me specifically because I have been told that my writing style (even when looking at things that I wrote before LLMs became widely available) closely resembles that of an LLM.