alt Hacker NewsFun read but I stopped after detecting AI:
"The young blood doesn’t add youth. It removes age."
"Feeding isn’t nutrition. It’s dialysis."
Etc. Why is LLM so enamored with the "Its not x, its Y" idiom? Its so ridiculously overused its almost comical
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xutopia • yesterday at 8:43 PM
Hemingway writes like that. Hemingway editor encourages that kind of style.
machielrey • yesterday at 6:52 PM
Thank you for your feedback - I will pass it on to my ghostwriter.
The flaw in trying to detect AI by its use of particular idioms is that it would have learned these idioms from its training corpus, which consists of writings from actual human beings.
In other words, some people actually write like this.