> The tropes that AI introduces into articles are very noticeable, quite annoying, and very unnatural -- they unfortunately don't write well.
replyQuite paradoxical: when its a person's native language we can spot it a mile away but there's no shortage of engineers who claim how good the code output is.
Whatever the reason for the default tone of AI in English, it's still there when generating code. It makes me think that the senior engineers who claim that it produces awesome output just don't understand the specific programming language as a someone who thinks in it almost natively.
Unnecessary emphasis can get... quite comical... indeed.
replyPeople have also started copying the AI tropes, especially your period/comma example.
replyI am not sure if it is necessarily copied. A lot of influencer-style people used some of these patterns (periods, not X but Y). So I'm not sure who is copying who?
replyThese patterns are learned from magazine articles and other long-form publications. The tendency to have unnecessarily pithy/hooky section titles is one that particularly irks me, but it's not like AI invented that. I was reading some DIY books that are published by a company that does a lot of web/magazine work and they structure the text in the same way (this is all pre-LLM).
replyContent creators are starting to include these traits into their scripts now, too. It's uncanny when you (literally) hear it.
> Content creators are starting to include these traits into their scripts now, too.
replyWhy would you assume this when the more likely reasonable is that the 'content creators' are just pasting LLM output?
The uncanny valley is an attractor basin.
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