Comment by ecto

2 hours ago

I disagree. Hand-authored articles can be slop too. This research is great, and your subjective feelings about word cadence don't affect the information. I guarantee you read AI output every day and don't know it.

Hand-authored engagement or clout (LinkedIn) farming articles and corporate press releases are usually slop, most others aren't. I'd be surprised if corporate press releases today weren't largely AI-written - no one would know the difference.

The criticism can be restated, then, as “you used AI to write it, and unlike others who use AI to write things, you did a bad job directing it and editing the work.”

  • This comment is not directed at you, but this is the best place I could find to insert my thoughts on this "nO LLm slOP" distraction:

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    The research is jaw-dropping enough for the average reader to comprehend (e.g: I am not a techie, but a former IBEW datacenter wiretwister).

    It could be covered in pube-sprinkled-turds and would still be worth reading.

    To me the "slopLOL" crew is akin to people who'll take their time to correct others' their/they're/there usage:

    Just read the fucking sentence (LLMs can and do and aren't so poopy-you-suck-for-being-human).

    • We know there’s interesting information in there. That’s not the point.

      How news is delivered matters. If you don’t believe that, why would news outlets compete with each other? Even if the facts are the same, would you prefer to get them from a good or bad writer?

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