Comment by dontdoxxme
11 hours ago
The style of the blog post, with short, abrupt sentences does not captivate me. I’d like to think someone writing a book has a more interesting writing style. Or maybe LLMs have damaged me and I’m too critical of writing style now, whatever it is this doesn’t sell the book to me.
Ever read Hemingway? Short, abrupt sentences. Sometimes incomplete. Observations with invisibly attached emotions. Their rhythm. Reader's imagination completes the picture like no author could.
A powerful style, merely sixty years old.
Peak HN moment: comparing AI-generated text to Hemingway.
You can ask your favorite LLMs to imitate Hemingway; I suppose they'd be comparably successful.
What you see as "AI-generated" looks more like translation, or written in English by a non-native speaker. The author is German, it appears.
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At this point I've become paranoid of my own writing. The LLM style seems to have become worse with time, more formatted, having only a few syntactic template it forces everything to go through. So that spurred me to write a lot more write-ups and blogposts that were laying around. But now I'm reading my own lines wondering if that feels AI? The only thing I can be sure of are my ESL-isms, and my convoluted, unending, extremely hard to parse sentences that would just deter people from reading.
Two paragraphs in and I have no idea what they’re selling me. A timeline on how to write a book? A font? A solution to a problem? Just casual lording? AI slop at its finest.
The author is quite prolific. Basically a blog post per day for the last couple of months!
To me, that actually screams LLM. At the very least much LLM assisted.
Everything about this blog and author screams AI-generated. See below comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929213 (it's downvote-brigaded)