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As much as I'm all for human generated writing, coming across and having to read through mostly-LLM-generated writing is becoming the norm (at least for me, it's true). While I may not necessarily approve of the manner in which this was written, it was still something I wanted to know more about and I read it anyway.

It does bias me negatively towards the author, and makes me a little sad that people are choosing to not put more thought and effort into their writing, but this is a trend that is here to stay.

Making a big fuss about this hasn't gone anywhere from what I can tell, and it's unlikely that the outcome will be any different going forward.

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What signals this as being LLM writing for you? I'm crap at noticing specifics here
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For me, it was this part of the paragraph:

> There is no atlas, so a hundred thousand CJK glyphs cost a font's worth of outline data, not an atlas the size of a video. Text can change every frame at no baking cost, which is exactly what you want for live data, user input, and localized content. And it all happens in a single draw with an ordinary fragment shader, no vendor extension required.

Specifically, these sentence structures:

1. ... so <blah> costs <blah>, not <blah>.

2. And <blah>, no <blah>.

3. ... fixed resolution ahead of time, which quietly ...

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They were the trained on human text right? So maybe that is the way human text as whole reads.

Maybe what we are seeing is us internet dwellers being exposed to wiring styles of humanity we had not been exposed to ?

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Stuff like this is a giveaway for me:

> Drawing it on a GPU, crisply, at any size, under any 3D transform, while the text changes every frame, is not.

> One small texture, resolution independent within reason, one cheap shader.

English is not my native language, so I may be wrong here.

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For me it was "head to head" table. Typical complete nonsense llm-generated comparison table. Rest of the content is still quite good tbh, generated or not
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Not arguing whether this article is or isn't LLM-generated, but I've seen skewed comparison tables like that in marketing since before LLMs. Pick a bunch of qualities skewed towards the new thing being proposed, highlight all the ways the new thing wins.
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> A note on fairness, because the technical reader will ask.

I think it's a mix of human and LLM writing.

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Then don't. I'm incredibly tired of people complaining about it. This is the world now. We're going to be interfacing with these models until we take the long nap. A models personality and prose are fine things to comment and give feedback on, but this belly-aching is worse than what it said in the first place because it's not constructive at this point.
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Author probably didn't even read...
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I think it's TLDW.
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