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0 pointsGuvante1mo ago0 comments

I hate it because typically that style of writing was when someone cared about what they were writing.

While it wasn't a great signal it was a decent one since no one bothered with garbage posts to phrase it nicely like that.

Now any old prompt can become what at first glance is something someone spent time thinking about even if it is just slop made to look nice.

This doesn't mean anything AI is bad, just that if AI made it look nice that isn't inductive of care in the underlying content.

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watwut1mo ago

> I hate it because typically that style of writing was when someone cared about what they were writing.

I dont understand these takes. The opposite is true - humans good at writing who care about writing never produced these kind of texts.

People who dont care about writing, but need to crank up a lot of words would occasionally produce writing like that. Human slop existed before ai, but it was not the thing produced by people who write well and care.

GuvanteOP1mo ago

You are effectively claiming that either:

AI created unprompted the eloquent speech it uses or that AI stole the unpopular style of eloquent speech from people who didn't know what they were talking about.

Neither of which is true because you are mistaking shit posts on social media as what everyone is talking about when discussing "AI posts".

I don't terribly care about replies or other short messages in this context. Wasting 30 seconds isn't worth complaining about.

But wasting 15 minutes trying to build up a mental model of a proposed solution only to realize it never existed is another thing entirely.

dualvariable1mo ago

I always felt like humans that were good at writing that way were often doing exactly what the LLM is doing. Making it sound good so that the human reader would draw all those same inferences.

You've just had it exposed that it is easy to write very good-sounding slop. I really don't think the LLMs invented that.

GuvanteOP1mo ago

Revisionist at best.

Sure some people could write well but didn't have a clue but they failed to maintain interest since once you realized the author was no good you bounced once you saw their styled blog.

Now they don't care as they only want the one view and likely won't even bother with more posts at the same site.

Barbing1mo ago

Exposed, and also dominating the majority of text being “written” every day. Would we say they invented the scaling and spread potential of slop?

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watwut1mo ago

> I hate it because typically that style of writing was when someone cared about what they were writing.

I dont understand these takes. The opposite is true - humans good at writing who care about writing never produced these kind of texts.

GuvanteOP1mo ago

You are effectively claiming that either:

AI created unprompted the eloquent speech it uses or that AI stole the unpopular style of eloquent speech from people who didn't know what they were talking about.

Neither of which is true because you are mistaking shit posts on social media as what everyone is talking about when discussing "AI posts".

I don't terribly care about replies or other short messages in this context. Wasting 30 seconds isn't worth complaining about.

But wasting 15 minutes trying to build up a mental model of a proposed solution only to realize it never existed is another thing entirely.

dualvariable1mo ago

I always felt like humans that were good at writing that way were often doing exactly what the LLM is doing. Making it sound good so that the human reader would draw all those same inferences.

You've just had it exposed that it is easy to write very good-sounding slop. I really don't think the LLMs invented that.

GuvanteOP1mo ago

Revisionist at best.

Sure some people could write well but didn't have a clue but they failed to maintain interest since once you realized the author was no good you bounced once you saw their styled blog.

Now they don't care as they only want the one view and likely won't even bother with more posts at the same site.

Barbing1mo ago

Exposed, and also dominating the majority of text being “written” every day. Would we say they invented the scaling and spread potential of slop?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse