Comment by hgo
9 hours ago
I like this article and it reads well, but I have to say, that to me it really reads as something written by an LLM. Probably under supervision by a human that knew what it should say.
I don't know if I mind.
Example. This paragraph, to me, has a eerily perfect rhythm. The ending sentence perfectly delivers the twist. Like, why would you write in perfect prose an argument piece in the science realm?
> Unlike Alice, who spent the year reading papers with a pencil in hand, scribbling notes in the margins, getting confused, re-reading, looking things up, and slowly assembling a working understanding of her corner of the field, Bob has been using an AI agent. When his supervisor sent him a paper to read, Bob asked the agent to summarize it. When he needed to understand a new statistical method, he asked the agent to explain it. When his Python code broke, the agent debugged it. When the agent's fix introduced a new bug, it debugged that too. When it came time to write the paper, the agent wrote it. Bob's weekly updates to his supervisor were indistinguishable from Alice's. The questions were similar. The progress was similar. The trajectory, from the outside, was identical.
> The questions were similar. The progress was similar. The trajectory, from the outside, was identical.
LLM speak. But the rest of that quote doesn't look LLM-generated, it's too fiddly and complex of an argument. I think this was edited with AI, but the underlying argument at least is human.
Or maybe the author is just a competent writer.
Yes. Let's assume so. My point is the suspicion itself.
I hate that this is the first thing that crosses my mind now anytime I read a well-written article.
> why would you write in perfect prose
If you could, why wouldn't you? LLM witch-hunts over every halfway competent writer are becoming quite tiresome
Yes, I agree and I use LLM in writing myself. I raise it because it was eerie to me as a reader and I wonder if its a common thought. I wonder what other readers think on this matter.
Again, I appreciate the article very much and I'm glad the other comments are on the article's content.
It sure is