Also, the images were ruinously far off from what they intended to convey. Dude, just draw a picture by hand & take a picture of it.
replyYou see this in all the AI generated Tik Toks. What causes AI to use such a weird construction.
replyI learned that exact style of writing in a marketing workshop, pre-AI. It's effective, satisfying, and a random third thing I can't be bothered to come up with right now.
replyAs a proportion of all easily crawled text on the internet, a lot of it will be random marketing copy. That influenced the writing style of early AIs, and since then everyone has trained at least partially on transcripts from every other AI chatbot
Oh my god did we inadvertently train AIs on idiotspeak.
replyIn-advert-ently?
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replyWait until in 5 year's time all kids speak in rule of 3
replyThat particular section is indeed AI, though other parts of the article aren't: https://www.pangram.com/history/89b28cd1-58e6-4065-9f1d-111a...
reply> I'm all in for using AI to help you write
replyDon't be all-in. It's important for humans to be able to write for themselves, and also to stand by what's been written in their name, which is much less likely if someone/something else has done the writing.
(proofreading is another matter though.)
I had that until I used Opus 4.8.
replyIt stopped being infuriatingly sloppy and took time to ensure the article had integrity.
It did having said that I did burn through a lot of tokens trying to do a deep analysis cross data pipeline debug.
Exactly! But AI is here to stay. Sooner or later, even comments on HN will be 100% AI generated. And we won't be here to read them - our AI agents will. /s
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