alt Hacker Newsyeah everything sounds like AI, and why is that? Well it might be because everything is AI but I think that writing style is more LinkedIn than LLM, the style of people who might get slapped down if they wrote something individual.
Much of the world has agreed to sound like machines.
Another thing I've noticed is that weird stuff that is perhaps off in some way, also gets accused of being LLMs because it doesn't feel right.
If you sound unique and weird you get accused of being a bad LLM that can't falsify humanity well enough, and if you sounds boring and bland and boosterist, you get accused of being a good LLM.
You can't write like no one else, but you also can't write like everybody else.
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Text feeling awkward or not flowing very well has ironically become a very strong signal for human-written text for me, and usually makes me pay more attention now
When I encounter this LLM generated Mad Lib:
"We embody <adjective> <noun> through <adjective> <noun>, <adjective> <noun>, and <adjective> <noun>. "
my uncanny warning blares--so I test if it becomes more intelligible with the adjectives stripped out. These padded-out pabulums are the tells.
I hope Elements of Style is rediscovered.