But isn't it normal for people who work on AI stuff to use LLMs for everything? They are very enthusiastic about AI so naturally they'll use it on everything they can.
replySometimes I wish they just posted the prompt, not everything has to go through an LLM blender before posting.
replyThat’s a bit reductive. Some do, others don’t. I do a lot of AI development, and building. But I value the act of writing for clarifying my thoughts. And I value other people’s time when reading my writing.
replyThey are the ones who should know best when not to use it.
replyWhat gives you the sense that the piece was written by an LLM? I would agree that the diagrams have some of the artifacts common in Nano Banana output, but what tips you off about the text?
replyEm dashes in every other sentence. I've never seen an actual person do that. The language in general reads exactly it's written by an LLM:
reply"The blah blah didn't just start as blah. It started as blah..." "First came blah -- blah blah blah" "And now: blah"
It's a distinctly AI writing style. I do wonder if we'll get to a point where people start writing this way just because it's what they're used to reading. Or maybe LLMs will get better at not writing like this before that happens.
I'm sick and tired of the "No..., no ..., (just) ..." LLM construction. It's everywhere now, you can't open a social media platform and get bombarded by it. This article is full of it.
replyI get it, I should focus just on the content and whether or not an LLM was used to write it, but the reaction to it is visceral now.
I wasn't put off by it. I read the article, got all the information I needed, it was interesting and informative. (In fact, I find the human-written ones more often annoying; most people are not good at writing, and are apt to create huge walls of text, whereas the AI is biased towards making the information easy to consume)
replyI do agree it is one of those “if I had more time, I would write a shorter letter” situations.
replyBut in this case the piece is wordier than a bad human writer would be. If they want to use ai for writing, so be it, but at least include “concisely” in the prompt.
I hate those AI generated graphs / charts more than the text
replyYou on about this article or other articles? I dont mind AI generated images to a degree, charts I might start to worry.
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