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roywigginstoday at 2:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

I'll be honest, I'd take this more seriously if this post didn't read like ChatGPT output. If you won't spend the effort to use your own words why should I stir myself to care?

Sorry, I'll put it in hand-crafted ChatGPTese:

## The Slop Problem

Every post sounds the same. No intelligence. No individuality. Just pure, clean LLM slop. Let's dive in.

- Every post has LLM tells. This is key.

- Posts get upvoted anyway. Nobody seems to notice or indeed care.

- People acclimate to the slop. This isn't just a coincidence. This is a real shift in standards. When people read enough of this, they begin to think it sounds normal.

## The Replying Dilemma

Should you engage with the content, when there is a real person involved? On the one hand, they put their name on it, and probably the details are drawn from their prompt, so it can be said to fairly represent what they wanted to say. So maybe ragging on their ChatGPT prose is being mean. On the other hand, if nobody ever mentions this, the acclimatization will only get worse as the rising tide of slop overwhelms any other style of writing.

## The "Snobbery is good actually" Option

Relentlessly bully people for their half-baked LLM copy. Make it your whole personality. Go insane.

## The "Giving Up" Solution

Learn to stop worrying and love the LLM.


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mbac32768today at 5:08 PM

A year ago I would have agreed but lately, when it comes to stuff linked off of HN, it's actually more likely to be clear and readable if it's AI written.

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bakugotoday at 2:28 PM

The post is AI generated, the project is AI generated, the "real" website is AI generated, the "fake" website is AI generated.

It's slop all the way down.

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