Comment by throwaway219450
3 days ago
These patterns are learned from magazine articles and other long-form publications. The tendency to have unnecessarily pithy/hooky section titles is one that particularly irks me, but it's not like AI invented that. I was reading some DIY books that are published by a company that does a lot of web/magazine work and they structure the text in the same way (this is all pre-LLM).
Content creators are starting to include these traits into their scripts now, too. It's uncanny when you (literally) hear it.
> Content creators are starting to include these traits into their scripts now, too.
Why would you assume this when the more likely reasonable is that the 'content creators' are just pasting LLM output?
I'm sure that's exactly what people are doing, but it's more difficult to tell from a recited script until someone drops a "It's not x, but Y".
I feel like the problem is that it's both. We're sanding off the long tail of human expression. It's not profitable this quarter, you see. Faster to let the AI do it.