logoalt Hacker News

righthandtoday at 5:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

It’s not just emdashes it’s emdashes coupled with everything else that’s a tell. Only marketing has been using “it’s not X, it’s Y” and not good non/fiction writing. People should be keying in to help others discern generative text, regardless of however annoying you find it.

The identifying and complaining of LLM generated writing is just desserts IMO of all the LLM evangelism going on.


Replies

tptacektoday at 5:26 PM

Just so I'm clear, I'm saying I don't think the writing in this is coherent enough to be LLM product. It kind of meanders and there are some rough paragraphs.

(That's not a bad thing! I'm not saying it wasn't worth reading. Just that it had rough edges that in my experience LLMs polish off.)

show 1 reply
pasquinellitoday at 5:30 PM

> Only marketing has been using “it’s not X, it’s Y”

i'm not even remotely convinced that's true.

show 1 reply