At this point I've become paranoid of my own writing.
The LLM style seems to have become worse with time, more formatted, having only a few syntactic template it forces everything to go through.
So that spurred me to write a lot more write-ups and blogposts that were laying around.
But now I'm reading my own lines wondering if that feels AI? The only thing I can be sure of are my ESL-isms, and my convoluted, unending, extremely hard to parse sentences that would just deter people from reading.
replyEver read Hemingway? Short, abrupt sentences. Sometimes incomplete. Observations with invisibly attached emotions. Their rhythm. Reader's imagination completes the picture like no author could.
replyA powerful style, merely sixty years old.
Hemingway's style had a lot of influence. It would not surprise me if text influenced by it is widespread in the LLM training corpus.
replyPeak HN moment: comparing AI-generated text to Hemingway.
replyYou can ask your favorite LLMs to imitate Hemingway; I suppose they'd be comparably successful.
replyWhat you see as "AI-generated" looks more like translation, or written in English by a non-native speaker. The author is German, it appears.
> I suppose they'd be comparably successful.
replyYes, so, not particularly.
Two paragraphs in and I have no idea what they’re selling me. A timeline on how to write a book? A font? A solution to a problem? Just casual lording? AI slop at its finest.
replyThe author is quite prolific. Basically a blog post per day for the last couple of months!
replyTo me, that actually screams LLM. At the very least much LLM assisted.
replyEverything about this blog and author screams AI-generated. See below comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929213 (it's downvote-brigaded)
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