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RickStoday at 12:47 AM2 repliesview on HN

Is that a claudeism? IMO that's a perfectly natural trope that'd be at home in my voice or any of a million generic blog people I've read since long before AI. It is a linguistic trope, sure, but that's an unrelated criticism.


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Sparkle-santoday at 12:58 AM

The thing with all AI-isms is that they all started humans, but we're apparently not allowed to use them anymore. Emily Dickinson obsessed with em-dashes, now they belong to ChatGPT.

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slopinthebagtoday at 3:28 AM

It's more subtle than that. Human written articles are immediately recognisable and so you let your guard down and tropes like this are accepted. But AI writing occupies a part of the uncanny valley where the hairs on the back of your neck stand up a bit, and every AI-ism like this is like a branch snapping beneath your feet