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Comment by hugodan

14 hours ago

Here is an exercise, find one character usage that the original didn't have and that this new one is littered with...

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bawolff  13 hours ago

The original phrack was (i'm assuming) 7-bit ascii, so obviously it wouldn't have used characters that aren't ascii...

  • TacticalCoder  13 hours ago

    The text written in LLMish for that Phrack intro uses ASCII characters for everything, including quotes and ellipsis. There's one non-ASCII Unicode codepoint that made it through and it's the telltale sign of LLMish. They also use a monospaced font and ASCII art (well at least ASCII aligned titles) to make it look old-school cool.

    Honestly I don't understand how anyone can defend this LLMish garbage.

    • bawolff  8 hours ago

      i'm not really defending it per se, i just think the way you phrased your argument was silly.

      in general though, i think it does get tiresome when people attack a piece solely based on the use of LLM editing instead of its merits (or lack thereof). That is ultimately an ad hominem. The reason to dislike LLM writing is because typically its vapid, not due to the LLM in and of itself.

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