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conartist6yesterday at 3:19 PM1 replyview on HN

That's the thing: even if you don't use AI, if most of what you read is AI, soon this is what you'll sound like, just because it's so much of the training data your own brain's model has.

Using it slowly sucks the uniqueness out of you.


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throwaway219450yesterday at 3:27 PM

Using AI to write blogs doesn’t bother me in principle, but I hate the prose that gets left in. Even if it’s not AI writing, being human doesn’t give you a pass for writing like a self-help guru. This sort of grammar is straight out of Claude:

> A human on a VPN sees one CAPTCHA and passes, but a headless browser fleet sees a wall.

I do wish we’d stop complaining about em dashes though, that’s lazy criticism. The sentence structure is far worse, and a big tell is subheadings that are all variants of “The <adjective> <noun phrase>”.

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