alt Hacker NewsMaybe it's just the frequency illusion, but "X. Not Y." in particular is a pattern I strongly associate with LLM writing.
> That’s confabulation. Not a metaphor. The same phenomenon.
> Published. Replicated. Not fringe.
> Not to validate it. Not to refute it. Not to engage with its content at all.
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girvo • today at 3:09 AM
It’s absolutely a signal. As is the constant repeating of points. It’s AI slop for sure
Which is a shame coz the premise is interesting.
There's a Wikipedia article with a nice list of LLM writing patterns:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing