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vintagedavetoday at 1:23 PM3 repliesview on HN

I thought those sentences were examples of excellent writing.

They don't sound AI to me - is that the implication, that it is? And the bit about 'Heroes' reminds me of his descriptions making fun of heroes in the stories about Cohen the Barbarian.


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astrangetoday at 3:17 PM

It sounds very AI. Current AIs' ideas of good writing involve weird metaphors, references to sensing things you can't sense, and tricolons.

Avicebrontoday at 1:33 PM

That's what I think the comment meant.. I was trying to put my finger on the word (other than slop) for the sort of low-effort, gimmicky pastiche that LLM's enable..but it might not exist yet.

Giving objects interiority is a very Pratchett move.