Comment by xeonmc

1 day ago

In your specific case, I think it’s likely an intentionally pointed response to your use of LLM.

I'll admit it. I've done this, but only a few times and only when someone sent me truly egregious AI slop—the kind where it's obvious no human that respects my time ever looked at it.

My reaction is usually, "Oh, we're doing this? Fine." I'll even prompt my LLM with something like, "Make it sound as corporate and AI-generated as possible." Or, if I'm feeling especially petty, "Write this like you're trying to win the 2025 award for Most Corporate Nonsense, and you're a committee at a Fortune 500 company competing to generate the most boilerplate possible." It's petty, sure, but there's something oddly cathartic about responding to slop with slop.

I'm certain it wasn't in this particular case, but yeah, that's definitely going to happen as we all become more annoyed by people shoveling AI-generated crap in our faces and asking us to think about it for them.