Comment by dofm
4 hours ago
He's just a Brit, writing in a style we write in. Sweary, comical, red-top. The Register did it for years.
4 hours ago
He's just a Brit, writing in a style we write in. Sweary, comical, red-top. The Register did it for years.
I'm not a Brit, but I do enjoy British culture, including writing. I haven't been able to read any of Ed's rants to the end despite generally being on the cautious side towards LLMs
I don't think you know what "gooning" means. It's edgy Gen Z slang and has nothing to do with being British.
I didn't say it was. I'm just observing that his muckraking style is part of a very long British pundit tradition. Americans have never liked it — Intel got very upset about The Register's coverage of "the Itanic".
(And he's not Gen Z anyway is he; he's among the older millennials. He's appropriating it for muckraking purposes.)
Sure, but does that vibe invalidate the argument? What an odd time the middle of an argument is to be clutching pearls and worrying about prose quality.
Style and vibes notwithstanding, is there anything in your view that wrong with the argument itself? Could a better or more polite writer have convinced you with the same shape of logic?
It shows that the author has a strong negative emotional reaction towards AI which likely influences his opinions and impartiality.
He is preaching to the choir, if you already hate AI you will love the article, if you don't hate AI already you will find the article insufferable.
I responded to a comment about the prose. Why are you not calling out that one instead?
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