Comment by npunt
2 months ago
A kind request - please try to write HN replies without AI, but if you're going to, please at least edit out any "it's not X its Y" or "isn't just X, but also Y" AI tics. A lot of us come here to get away from talking to AIs all day.
The comment you're replying to doesn't sound like AI to me
It’s very obviously AI, several tells:
‘isn’t just / it’s also’ AI-ism should at least turn your AI radar on, then you get this weirdly formal structure that sounds like a trying-to-be-relatable press release:
“This shift eliminates A, thereby enhancing B, improving C, and facilitating D. The benefits? Better U, smoother V (hello, W), improved X, and potentially Y—freeing up Z.”
Question to self interjection, chipper ‘(hello, W)’ aside, topped off with a zero spaced emdash. 10000% AI, stylistically this isn’t text tuned to an HN audience, comments never sound like this. What’s funny is the paragraph it’s quoting has nearly the same style, the LLM probably picked that up.
Not trying to call anyone out, just pointing out the stylistic tells we should all be aware of.
I've re-read the comment again and I'm convinced it's not ai. It uses a pattern that ai adopted but it seems like an actual genuine comment. This is based on my spidey senses so it's not something I'm going to debate logically but it seems quite a few people agree with me. And I've seen lots of annoying ai-written stuff, and of course use Claude and Chatgpt regularly
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Is there anything less interesting on this site than baseless claims that other people's posts are AI?
There are certainly more interesting things than you failing to defending your recent AI looking posts (c/w all the hallmarks).