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TFNAyesterday at 11:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

Brevity is the big disaster of human-generated text since the rise of the phone as default device and the appearance of Twitter. To discuss matters with sufficient depth and nuance, one often has to write a few solid paragraphs.

If people are now wincing at longform text because they automatically assume it was LLM-generated, then that bodes ill.


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aarjaneirotoday at 6:49 AM

"poisoning the well"

mapontoseventhstoday at 12:25 AM

To add to this, there seems to be an inability to process metaphor and simile in the younger generations. Likely as a result of the same deficit. They've become very literal, and often mistake anything that's well written for AI slop.