alt Hacker NewsTrying to bring my nose for AI up to standard -- care to share what you're smelling? For me it's:
- Short, declarative sentences, stating grandiose yet vague claims, in a high school vocabulary: "Taste becomes useful when it moves from vibe to diagnosis."
- Absence of references (let alone web links) to real-world examples.
- Em-dashes, gone. No semicolons, but 23 full colons. As instructed by prompt?
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BeetleB • today at 8:17 PM
I almost never use semicolons, and heavily use colons and hyphens (AKA em-dashes - not hyphenated words).
TIL I'm an AI :-)
evdubs • today at 8:22 PM
There must be a table with three columns and 4-6 rows.
To that I'd add:
* an abundance of ordered and unordered lists
* paragraphs are <= 3 sentences
* _it's not X, it's Y_: "The goal is not to let AI choose for you. The goal is to build a sharper rejection vocabulary." "The biggest decisions are not formatting decisions. They are directional decisions."
* a lot of <h2> breaking up the prose, if you can call it that
* setup statement, then a colon, then a punchline: "AI and LLMs have changed one thing very quickly: competent output is now cheap."
AI-generated essays are listicles at heart