We're losing our voice to LLMs

Even before LLMs, entire SEO industry was writing content optimized to the tee with templates.

We're losing our code too.

Skill becomes expensive mechanized commodity

old code is left to rot while people try to survive

we lose our history, we lose our dignity.

We lose our voice based on how we use our voice.

We improve our use of words when we work to improve our use of words.

We improve how we understand by how we ask.

I’ve realized that if you say that pro AI commenters are actually bot accounts, theres not really much that can be done to prove otherwise.

The discomfort and annoyance that sentence generates, is interesting. Being accused of being a bot is frustrating, while interacting with bots creates a sense of futility.

Back in the day when Facebook first was launched, I remember how I felt about it - the depth of my opposition. I probably have some ancient comments on HN to that effect.

Recently, I’ve developed the same degree of dislike for GenAI and LLMs.

Process before product, unless the product promises to deliver a 1000% return on your investment. Only the disciplined artist can escape that grim formula.

Let's not forget to mention the rise of AI-generated video. You can't really trust any video as real anymore.

It's a little odd for a capitalist society that values outputs so highly to also value process as much.

We've proved we can sort of value it, through supporting sustainability/environmental practices, or at least _pretending to_.

I just wonder, what will be the "Carbon credits" of the AI era. In my mind a dystopian scheme of AI-driven companies buying "Human credits" from companies that pay humans to do things.

police ignores me for 2 years and counting

Some people, but not everyone, are abdicating their agency. Period.

And that too is an expression of their own agency. #Laissez-faire

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For those of us not constantly online, we're doing just fine.

I suppose when your existence is in the cloud, the fall back to earth can look scary. But it's really only a few inches down. You'll be ok.

We have a channel at work where we share our experiences in using AI for software engineering.

Predictably, this has turned into a horror zone of AI written slop that all sounds the same, with section titles with “clever” checkbox icons, and giant paragraphs that I will never read.

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"Over time, it has become obvious just how many posts are being generated by an LLM. The tell is the voice. Every post sounds like it was posted by the same social media manager."

I'd love to see an actual study of people who think they're proficient at detecting this stuff. I suspect that they're far less capable of spotting these things than they convince themselves they are.

Everything is AI. LLMs. Bots. NPCs. Over the past few months I've seen demonstrably real videos posted to sites like Reddit, and the top post is someone declaring that it is obviously AI, they can't believe how stupid everyone is to fall for it, etc. It's like people default assume the worst lest they be caught out as suckers.