alt Hacker News> …it’s only fluent readers who have trouble.
That makes sense, because fluent readers are using more System 1 processing to read - they’re not thinking about it for the most part, they’re just pattern matching instinctively based on text they’ve been exposed to previously (“trained on”). AI writing breaks those patterns so compromises their fluency.
Whereas a second language reader or poor reader is exerting more conscious attention to understand the text, so it doesn’t matter as much if it doesn’t conform to standard patterns.
Except LLMs are "System I" writers. You'll be more satisfied with what they've written if you haven't really understood it and just let it wash over you.
It only falls apart when you actually try to figure out what's being said.
I find the most passionate advocates of LLMs right now to be the people who are
1) also the most passionate advocates of not reading or reviewing their output in any detail. They seem to be actively annoyed by the idea that people think they should. And
2) people who have a strange theory of mind about LLMs that excuses the low quality of their output. I've heard many times people advancing the theory that LLMs are coding in a particular way because the way that LLMs code is the way that they (the LLMs themselves!) are best able to work with the code.
In fact, I get the impression from these people that they think that their touching the code would actually ruin this delicate balance that the LLM is trying to make. This is actually crazy thinking. On a pretty obvious level, they already think that any LLM they encounter is a super-intelligent God acting in mysterious ways, and that they only way you can ruin its plan is by questioning it.