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jampekkatoday at 1:53 PM4 repliesview on HN

Indeed. Well written, clear, informative and to the point.


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xpcttoday at 5:00 PM

As of now, any human effort is still ~= quality. Human-written article signals to me that a certain amount of time was spent on it, which is a proxy for quality. This goes for both text and diagrams.

If someone slapped together an article from an LLM and a few internal documents, that tells me exactly how much they cared about it.

Aachentoday at 2:57 PM

So to-the-point that it comes with a table of contents. Idk if it needs saying that ToCs have legitimate uses, but the number of search results and blog posts having one since ~2022 is, eh, interesting. You come for whatever the headline was and you get a page with thousands of words, split up into five or more chapters, many of them overlapping or a rephrasing of the same question if you've hit a true content farm. This is not that, but I also can't fathom how one could argue that slop is concise as a hallmark

As for being well-written, does that refer to correct use of grammar and no typos, or do you mean that you find that bots write better than humans in any other way?

marknuttertoday at 3:26 PM

It could be the best written, most informative article they've ever read, but anti-ai folks would dismiss it as slop the moment someone told them it was written by ai.

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