alt Hacker NewsI really don't want this to be AI writing because I enjoyed it, but as other commenters have pointed out, the rate of publishing (according to the linked Twitter account) is very rapid. I'm worried that I can't tell.
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What bugged me the most was that it was really not concise and a bit ranty. But I couldn't tell at a casual glance if it was AI or not.
That does look a little suspicious. There do exist AI-based tools now that can take other people's blogs and rewrite them with other words. Those are all the rage over on Reddit subs on blogging for ad revenue ...
I try to reserve judgement, but 110 em dashes is... excessive.
I really enjoyed the essay, only checked afterwards when I started reading comments.
I hate that I'm starting to develop a media literacy immune system for blog posts of all things.
>the rate of publishing (according to the linked Twitter account) is very rapid.
I've written almost 50 blog posts in the last 3 years. All in draft, never published mostly because a crippling imposter syndrome and fear of criticism. But every now and then I wake up full of confidence and think "this is it. today I'll click publish I don't give a fuck. All in". Never happens. Maybe this author was in the same boat until a month ago. I know there's a high chance that's just a bot but I can understand if it's not and how devastating has to be to overcome the fear of showing your thoughts to the world and being labeled a bot. If it's not already obvious English is not my first language and I've used LLMs to check my grammar and improve the style. Maybe all my posts smell like chatpgt now and this just adds to the fear of being dismissed as slop.
does it really matter? If AI can produce an essay of such quality - take my respect and steal my time please
> it — a crisis not of computer science but of procurement
> a subtype — not in the object-oriented sense of a type that extends another, but in the mathematical sense of a constrained set
A number of em dashes and "not X, but Y" constructs unfortunately, sometimes even right next to each other like the above.
I'm not convinced this work is wholly AI but it has at least the smell of augmentation or assistance, and a sloppy mindset in terms overseeing it. That indicates a lack of investment from the author which I always think is... unfortunate as a reader, to say the least.