alt Hacker NewsI really like fly.io posts, they're usually written in such a way that feels so human. I used to read all of them, because the writing was interesting, and secondarily sometimes the topic was.
Except seeing sentences like this:
> The difference is that a Sprite now stops and says so instead of carrying on with a disk it can’t vouch for
Makes it feel distinctly LLM written. Maybe I'm being RL'd to identify LLM authorship, maybe the author was RL'd to write like that by reading so many Claude-written works, but I'd like to see the humanity of fly.io blog posts come back.
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I’d cut them some slack if that’s the only example you found in the whole article. A lot of the “LLMisms” are actually valid english constructs* , it’s just that LLMs will use them in every sentence. I noticed while reading older stuff that’s way pre-llm, occasionally a sentence will jump out to me as LLM written, but it’ll be like once per chapter. When it’s every other sentence only then do I discount the entire thing as LLM written.
*: Except for the “Random label: sentence that has nothing to do with the label” construct. That one drives me crazy and it makes no sense
Noticed it too. Feels like an LLM that ingested all old blog posts and did it's best to match the style. But it doesn't feel human anymore.
people are just going to have to turn the accursed spell-check off and start writing like psychos again. said modality was second nature online for like the first 15 years of the web. phones ruined us
It is always worth remembering that LLMs use certain phrases and patterns because many source materials in the training set did. One or two smells does not a cesspool make.
As anti-AI as I am, people pointing out that they've spotted an AI are getting quite tiresome too. If you think people won't spot it without you telling them, then it is good enough for them no matter who or what generated it.
Reads like AI to me, or AI-shaped corposlop
I wish we'd stop getting replies like this to articles. It's just as tiring as LLM written articles.
People seem to forget that LLMs copied human writing. They also tended to copy people with more proper or formally trained writing styles. There are so many journalists and writers that talk about how they've had to 'stupify' how they write so they don't get accused of being an LLM.
It's like we're running idiocracy on fast forward.