alt Hacker NewsSuper interesting. I wish this article wasn’t written by an LLM though. It feels soulless and plastic.
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Any specific sections that stick out? Juxt in the past had really great articles, even before LLMs, and know for a fact they don't lack the expertise or knowledge to write for themselves if they wanted and while I haven't completely read this article yet, I'd surprise me if they just let LLMs write articles for them today.
For what it’s worth, Pangram thinks this article is fully human-written: https://www.pangram.com/history/f5f68ce9-70ac-4c2b-b0c3-0ca8...
And it turns out at least the part about Rust and locks is plain wrong. What a surprise: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=47676938&goto=item%3Fi...
AI tends to write like it is getting paid by the word. This article wasn't too egregious but an editor could have improved it.
"Written by an LLM" based on what data or symptom?
I'm starting to develop a physiological response when I recognize AI prose. Just like an overwhelming frustration, as if I'm hearing nails on chalkboard silently inside of my head.
You have no evidence that it was.
This is the top reply on a substantial percentage of HN posts now and we should discourage it.
It is:
- sneering
- a shallow dismissal (please address the content)
- curmudgeonly
- a tangential annoyance
All things explicitly discouraged in the site guidelines. [1]
Downvoting is the tool for items that you think don't belong on the front page. We don't need the same comment on every single article.
Not to single out your comment, but it feels like it's gotten to the point where HN could use a rule against complaining about AI generated content.
It seems like almost every discussion has at least someone complaining about "AI slop" in either the original post or the comments.
I've seen way, way worse. Either someone LLM-polished something they already wrote, or they did their own manual editing pass.
The short sentence construction is the most suspicious, but I actually don't see anything glaring. It normally jumps out and hits me in the face.
I did not get any “written by LLM vibes”. I enjoyed it and it pulled me in to keep reading.
Who gives a crap if it was written by an LLM. Read it or don’t read it. Your choice.
If it conveys the idea and your learn something new, then it’s mission accomplished.
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It's not setting off any LLM alarm bells to me. It just reads like any other scientific article, which is very often soulless