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sebastiennightyesterday at 9:35 AM1 replyview on HN

I wouldn't say it's "bad writing", but rather that the sheer volume of it allows the attentive reader to quickly identify the tropes and get bored of them.

Similar to how you can watch one fantastic western/vampire/zombie/disaster/superhero movie and love it, but once Hollywood has decided that this specific style is what brings in the money, they flood the zone with westerns, or superhero movies or whatever, and then the tropes become obvious and you can't stand watching another one.

If (insert your favorite blogger) had secret access to ChatGPT and was the only person in the world with access to it, you would just assume that it's their writing style now, and be ok with it as long as you liked the content.


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grey-areayesterday at 1:59 PM

It is objectively bad writing:

Overly focussed on style over content

Melodrama even when discussing the mundane

Attention grabbing tricks like binary opposites overused constantly

Overuse of adjectives and adverbs in particularly inappropriate places.

Lack of coherence if you’re generating large bits of text

General dull tone and lack of actual content in spite of the tricks above

Re your assertion at the end - sure if I didn’t know I’d think it was a particularly stupid, melodramatic human who didn’t ever get to the point and probably avoid their writing at all costs.