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lucumoyesterday at 9:25 AM1 replyview on HN

> At this point it’s pretty easy to detect unaltered LLM output because it is such bad writing.

And yet people seem to still be terrible at that. Someone uses an em-dash and there's always a moron calling it out as AI.

> I honestly don’t know what sites like this will do when that happens and the only way of detecting LLMs is that they are subtly wrong or post too much, we’d be overrun with them.

My personal take is that it doesn't really matter. Most posts are already knee-jerk reactions with little value. Speaking just to be talking. If LLMs make stupid posts, it'll be basically the same as now: scroll a bit more. And if they chance upon saying something interesting then that's a net gain.


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grey-areayesterday at 3:16 PM

Never seen this in the wild, but that sounds unfortunate about em-dashses.

Personally, I think it will matter deeply if sites like this are overrun by bots. If you believe your description, why are you here?