Comment by ericol
8 hours ago
> No headers per element. No pointers. No jumping around the heap.
that smells of AI [1], and thus lazy writing. I'm all in for using AI to help you write, but if you don't put your voice to it then there's no reason to read it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...
Also, the images were ruinously far off from what they intended to convey. Dude, just draw a picture by hand & take a picture of it.
> I'm all in for using AI to help you write
Don't be all-in. It's important for humans to be able to write for themselves, and also to stand by what's been written in their name, which is much less likely if someone/something else has done the writing.
(proofreading is another matter though.)
That particular section is indeed AI, though other parts of the article aren't: https://www.pangram.com/history/89b28cd1-58e6-4065-9f1d-111a...
You see this in all the AI generated Tik Toks. What causes AI to use such a weird construction.
I learned that exact style of writing in a marketing workshop, pre-AI. It's effective, satisfying, and a random third thing I can't be bothered to come up with right now.
As a proportion of all easily crawled text on the internet, a lot of it will be random marketing copy. That influenced the writing style of early AIs, and since then everyone has trained at least partially on transcripts from every other AI chatbot
Oh my god did we inadvertently train AIs on idiotspeak.
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Wait until in 5 year's time all kids speak in rule of 3
Didn't you know? Evenly divisible numbers are infelicitous. That's why Atevi don't use them in polite conversation.
Exactly! But AI is here to stay. Sooner or later, even comments on HN will be 100% AI generated. And we won't be here to read them - our AI agents will. /s
That’s right. Because at some point, the volume of AI-generated posts and comments on sites like Hacker News or Reddit will overwhelm the ability of humans to read them all. So the only reasonable way for humans to participate will be to have our own AI readers summarising them.
I had that until I used Opus 4.8.
It stopped being infuriatingly sloppy and took time to ensure the article had integrity.
It did having said that I did burn through a lot of tokens trying to do a deep analysis cross data pipeline debug.