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Comment by alpinisme

1 day ago

I’m honestly stunned that people use AI for personal communication. It seems so alien to me.

You don’t think your comment would be improved by including an emoji of an alien? And maybe a telephone?

The “tells” for AI are - as of this writing - very obvious. I assume they will disappear over time.

  • The obvious tells are obvious. The less obvious ones fool you so you don't learn them. There's no feedback. You sound like a schoolteacher saying "My students don't cheat on exams. I'd know if they did!" For starters, you can just tell the AI to write in the style of a HN commenter, or whatever.

    • LLMs are for producing work that should not be done. So it can definitely comment in the style of a comment that's superfluous.

      I keep testing with LLMs and it's super bad in writing convincingly in the style of a good writer. That's because good writing is driven by intent, and LLMs don't have intent.

      I'm baffled by AI fans who seem sceptical that writing styles exist, and that discerning styles is just part of reading any text at all.

      AI fans seem to be people who literally can't tell good from bad, and get upset when you maintain that you in fact can. They think you're having them on.

    • > tell the AI to write in the style of a HN commenter, or whatever.

      This might turn out to be one of those tricks like Ctrl+C Ctrl+V that surprisingly few people discover.