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its_notjackyesterday at 1:45 PM10 repliesview on HN

Is this post AI-written? The repeated lists with highlighted key points, the "it's not just [x], but [y]" and "no [a] just [b]" scream LLM to me. It would be good to know how much of this post and this project was human-built.


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zahlmanyesterday at 2:32 PM

I was on the fence about such an identification. The first "list with highlighted key points" seemed quite awkward to me and definitely raised suspicion (the overall list doesn't have quite the coherence I'd expect from someone who makes the conscious choice; and the formatting exactly matches the stereotype).

But if this is LLM content then it does seem like the LLMs are still improving. (I suppose the AI flavour could be from Grammarly's new features or something.)

22cyesterday at 9:37 PM

> "The key insight is..."

This was either written by Claude or someone who uses Claude too much.

I wish they could be upfront about it.

evanjrowleyyesterday at 2:13 PM

Perhaps people have mimicked the style because LLMs have popularized it and clearly it serves some benefit to readers.

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scotty79yesterday at 7:18 PM

I love the style it was written in. I felt a bit like reading a detective novel, exploring all terrible things that happened and waiting for a plot twist and hero comming in and saving the day.

groundzeros2015yesterday at 5:06 PM

Yes. It appears that way

botusaurusyesterday at 2:27 PM

you know why LLMs repeat those patterns so much? because that's how real humans speak

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efilifeyesterday at 2:25 PM

I'm so fucking tired of this

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essephyesterday at 2:14 PM

> Is this post AI-written?

What if it was?

What if it wasn't?

What if you never find out definitely?

Do you wonder that about all content?

If so, doesn't that get exhausting?

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frankohnyesterday at 7:35 PM

I analyzed the test using Pangram, which is apparently reliable, it say "Fully human Written" without ambiguity.[1]

I personally like the content and the style of the article. I never managed to accept going through the pain to install and use Visual Studio and all these absurd procedures they impose to their users.

[1] https://www.pangram.com/history/300b4af2-cd58-4767-aced-c4d2...

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