Comment by bglazer
1 day ago
This article gives off really strong chatgpt vibes. Bullet points! Confidently stated but quite vague statements! Integration, key innovations, more bullet points! Distinct lack of personal viewpoints or unique opinions! Very long!
Maybe I’m being uncharitable and this is just the way things are written on Medium, but man this was not an easy or particularly enlightening read.
Nah it's definitely AI generated. I used to like Medium a lot, but ever since AI Models became mainstream, it's just been a cesspool of horribly written articles.
So are they generating blog from arxiv papers?
Yes, when I posted it, I had done a search for the article that most clearly explained the paper and this was, on its face, the best explanatory one. To paraphrase Swift, "A poor AI analysis can travel halfway around the world while the human writers are putting on their shoes.”
I agree. I sometimes have LLMs produce such summaries for my own use—I don’t have time to read in full everything I’m interested in—but I wish they didn’t get posted to HN without being identified as AI-written.
I'm not sure if excessively bolding keywords is a sign of something being written by AI or just something being written by a person way more "hip with the times" than me.
If true, it's got its grammar wrong:
>At its core, Titans merge two powerful mechanisms:
Should be "merges", since "Titans" as used here is a singular proper noun.
The paper the article is based on [1] treats “Titans” as a plural: “Titans are capable of solving problems beyond TC^0, meaning that Titans are theoretically more expressive than Transformers….”
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.00663
Binoculars, a llm detector, gives a "most likely AI-generated".
100%
Header
Paragraph
List items
Delve, here’s why, conclusion.
This is how I write, it’s how I was taught to write. It’s how ChatGPT writes because ChatGPT was trained to write in a clear way. Intro, paragraphs, and a conclusion are just table stakes for writing to persuade. List items are a very common way of communicating complex things. “Delve” is a common word.
By all means assume this was AI drafted (there are enough grammar mistakes that it has clearly been edited by a human with English as a second language), but this list of reasons is a bad one.
And clearly has screenshots from ChatGPT with the same wording as the post itself.
Lazy research, lazy writing, disappointing but not surprising.