logoalt Hacker News

WesolyKubeczek • today at 8:17 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

The text read to me like it was, first and foremost, a translation from Russian. It wasn't the names that gave it away to me. It was the text itself. Even in English, it had unmistakable Russianness all over it. I switched the blog language to Russian. Didn't feel like an LLM. Felt rather like written by someone who had read a lot of Viktor Pelevin or maybe Leonid Kaganov.


Replies

yablokoffya • today at 8:46 PM

I'm pretty sure it was. The wordplay on the Russian “пока” meaning both "goodbye" and "for now" (as in "not yet") is key here

➕ show 1 reply
ethanj8011 • today at 8:36 PM

Oh! I mean that could be a good explanation. Written in another language and then translated over via LLM.