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Tiberiumtoday at 5:26 PM5 repliesview on HN

You're in for a surprise then, because this article is clearly in an LLM style. That doesn't mean it's hallucinated, no, there is a real human behind, but the actual content that you enjoyed is LLM-written.


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knollimartoday at 5:30 PM

Give me that style guide and spread it around then!

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andy99today at 5:41 PM

I also saw the tells but found it direct enough that it wasn’t really a concern. LLM writing style is a good signal that something is slop and should be ignored but isn’t exactly causal... it would be an interesting exercise to try and write something very direct and clearly insightful, informative, etc (all the slashdot adjectives I guess) but do it with some clear LLM tells and see how many people summarily dismiss it.

Edit- upon rereading I think this is probably human written, but definitely has the LLM / LinkedIn style. In any event, it’s probably as close to be experiment I mention above as I’ve seen.

flexagoontoday at 7:58 PM

I don't think it is. It reads exactly the way I would write it myself.

trimethylpurinetoday at 5:34 PM

I think they were complementing the absence of trash talk, not the absence of LLM.

jatoratoday at 5:41 PM

It's no secret LLM's can disseminate news in a superior fashion to 99% of human writers, when instructed properly

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