alt Hacker NewsThen I am very sorry about that, I feel bad and should read more carefully next. I only glanced at first few paragraphs and encountered this line which is a very common LLM trope. I could see that article is long and has lots of images and other stuff but I could see em dashes too. As no one else had said that yet, I did.
But I do want to say that this 'witch hunt' is OK. We should keep calling out AI content which is mostly effortless to keep actual effort by humans separate from this flood of content.
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we should call out effortless hunters too, you cast more asperity with your folly than you find truth. try pangram next time, but I do want to say that you aren’t OK.
LLMs adopted phrases from humans. But now humans adopt phrases from LLMs.
Obviously the witch hunt is not ok.
I mean you just exhibited why we even have the term "witch hunt" and why it's recognized as a bad thing in the first place. You burned a witch who was not a witch.
I guess you must surely be fine with "we should keep calling out the low effort thoughtless critics attacking people who didn't harm them".
I could have never imagined that my long love for em dashes would have been my downfall! :)
I think your sentiment is totally understandable. The internet is flooded with AI slop. But not all AI content is automatically slop.
We're moving into a new phase of the Internet were most (all?) content will eventually be touched by AI in some ways. Whether it's Grammarly fixing the grammar, ChatGPT coming up with content corrections, Claude helping with the code, and Copilot writing the integration tests.
And I don't necessarily see a problem with 100% AI content either, when it's actually good. Let's be honest: most people can't even write as eloquently as ChatGPT does! XD I think what I'm NOT ok with is someone pretending they didn't use AI when they did. But as long as the contribution is clearly labelled, I think I'd be ok with that!
The problem is that, like all "witch hunt"-adjacent phenomena, it inevitably gather momentum from haters and so-called "content destroyers". And this, paradoxically, will make creators (like me) less likely to make new original content.