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ecto • today at 11:48 AM • 6 replies • view on HN

How would you feel if someone described your work as LLM puffery?

The world changing - no need to be rude about it.


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amiga386 • today at 2:23 PM

If someone said that about a website I had an LLM shit out, that led with such inauthentic marketroid speak, I'd say "it's a fair cop, guv"

I might add "you've spent more effort reading it than I spent writing it"

jagged-chisel • today at 11:59 AM

“Puffery” is about the article, not the work

rossy • today at 2:24 PM

I'll never have to worry about that.

Applejinx • today at 1:21 PM

That would be weird and disheartening BECAUSE I'm not using LLMs to work instead of me and have ideas instead of me and implement them instead of me.

If I was, then 'puffery' seems about right, and my best angle might be to insist that I'm yeast, leavening, and the massive quantities of gas blowing something up into a puffy empty state are only happening because of me. It's even kind of true, LLMs just sit there until directed.

thisismyanon2 • today at 12:27 PM

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mpalmer • today at 1:23 PM

Me personally? I'd feel shame for not spending the half hour it would have taken to put even the flimsiest human stamp on the thing I asked an LLM to make for me.