Comment by 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.
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.
I think one reason is also the style? Like you can not like the LLM style and that's a perfectly valid to reason to not like it.
Attacking the use of LLMs might just be shorthand for the style or the long-winded vacuousness that people don't like.
I agree that if someone used an LLM and the result is _good_, I'm not sure I would care. But that generally doesn't happen yet, so one is a proxy for the other.