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zaiktoday at 11:42 AM6 repliesview on HN

> No encryption, no headers, no sessions. Pure simplicity.

AI smell?


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maelntoday at 1:49 PM

This is also a very common way to write (hence why LLM tend to regurgitate it so much).

ColinWrighttoday at 1:50 PM

I write like this sometimes, and I've come to deeply resent the fact that AI slop-machines mimic things that make some writers' style "suspect" or "AI smells".

The slop-machines write the way they do because they have been fed material, and they then spew that back out. So any writer whose style looks a little different, eccentric, or unique may find that the slop-machine's stochastic processes lead them into a state where the pool of possible continuations is small enough that the mimicry is strong.

My wife's writings have recently been labelled as "probably AI" ... and we are livid.

But there's nothing we can do except write in a style that is not truly our own, just to avoid the inaccurate "slop identification" algorithms from smearing us.

Vile machines.

/rant

NoDodgeQuestiontoday at 1:03 PM

disclose: "AI is one more tool. I use it for mechanical tasks: polishing the wording, catching typos, suggesting synonyms, improving or adapting code blocks and translating the article between Spanish and English."

bargainbintoday at 12:34 PM

Those commas do appear to be a load-bearing seam for the sentence — that’s not guaranteed proof, it’s just strong indication.

layer8today at 1:26 PM

AI was definitely used in the writing; it’s a pity.