alt Hacker NewsI feel like I’m starting to have my own psychosis where if I read a blog article and I get a whiff of AI smell my brain turns off and I can’t read anymore.
I’m not blaming the author maybe this is their original idea and its edited by AI but I physically can’t keep reading it. AI blindness or something.
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Same with youtube lately. You can hear the AI cadence and phrasing in the scripts even when it is read by a human
Don't generally mind AI-isms but somehow the cadence is really irritating when spoken.
>It's not X it's Y
I think it's because LLMs write things down that normal people wouldn't - they go the extra mile, but the reader isn't interested in the extra mile.
Which is an interesting development. I think a lot of people have gotten impatient with long form, high density content thanks to years of rapid fire short bursts of internet - comments, tweets, shortened or clip-edited videos and podcasts (removing all the natural quiet points, especially at the end of sentences so you get theseChopped sentences wherePeople talk likeThis so that youDon't hear any naturalBreaks in aSentence).
Having an LLM now have the relative superpower of reading everything with the same amount of detail and attention, and write something in response to it + filling in the blanks is a bit of a shock.
YES me too. I powered through this particular blog post, but... man.
Even when I know that some content MIGHT be useful for me, I still can't read it.
Agreed. These days my subconscious mind is looking for telltale signs of AI slop (the emdash being one such example), and certain phrases ("... does the heavy lifting" , "... comes the part that matters the most ...", etc.) and the moment the number of alerts crosses a (low) threshold, I'll close out the tab and forget about the content.
Sure, the idea behind the blog post may have been good, but if you have to use AI to flesh it out, it's no longer of interest to me.
Yes. AI;DR.
I’m to the point where, with few exceptions:
1. If I’m writing something for human consumption (including my future self), I will write it by hand
2. I will only read an LLM’s output if I’m the one who prompted it
If you can’t be bothered to take the time to write it, why should I take the time to read it?
(And I say this as someone who routinely maxes out the $100/month claude subscription)
Might as well call it "spam psychosis" when you stop reading a spam email as soon as you realize what it is.
It's unhealthy to read garbage and it's good that you know it.
Pangram says the beginning and end were human, but the middle was ai.
Am I the only one who uses AI for everything except writing?
I feel like it's still terrible at writing good prose, and I'm not even talking about fiction. But it's good at pretty much everything else.
On the plus side, I'm reading more "old" (> 10 year) books than ever.
Same here. I realized for me it boils down to a combination of mutual respect + return on time investment. You write your text yourself = there is a guarantee you have at least read it = an implicit social proof of value. Take this guarantee away, and there is not much incentive left for me to invest even 5 minutes of own time into your blog post, fellow stranger on the internet.