Comment by fao_

Comment by fao_ 18 hours ago

15 replies

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I'm really sorry to have to ask this, but this really feels like you had an LLM write it?

jesprenj 17 hours ago

I doubt it. "hacker news" spelled lowercase? comma after "beauty"? missing "in" after "it's"? i doubt an LLM would make such syntax mistakes. it's just good writing, that's also possible these days.

walthamstow 18 hours ago

There's a thing in soccer at the moment where a tackle looks fine in realtime but when the video referee shows it to the onpitch referee, they show the impact in slo-mo over and over again and it always looks way worse.

I wonder if there's something like this going on here. I never thought it was LLM on first read, and I still don't, but when you take snippets and point at them it makes me think maybe they are

Insanity 17 hours ago

Even if so, would it have mattered? The point is showing off the SQLite DB.

But it didn’t read LLM generated IMO.

rantingdemon 18 hours ago

Why do you say that?

  • sundarurfriend 18 hours ago

    Because anything that even slightly differs from the standard American phrasing of something must be "LLM generated" these days.

    • JavGull 18 hours ago

      With the em dashes I see you. But at this point idrc so long as it reads well. Everyone uses spell check…

      • naikrovek 17 hours ago

        I add em dashes to everything I write now, solely to throw people who look for them off. Lots of editors add them automatically when you have two sequential dashes between words — a common occurrence, like that one. And this is is Chrome on iOS doing it automatically.

        Ooh, I used “sequential”, ooh, I used an em dash. ZOMG AI IS COMING FOR US ALL

    • deadbabe 18 hours ago

      Sometimes I want to write more creatively, but then worry I’ll be accused of being an LLM. So I dumb it down. Remove the colorful language. Conform.

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      • ssl-3 14 hours ago

        Fuck 'em.

        Always write what you want, however you want to write it. If some reader somewhere decides to be judgemental because of — you know — an em dash or an X/Y comparison or a complement or some other thing that they think pins you down as being a bot, then that's entirely their own problem. Not yours.

        They observe the reality that they deserve.

        • deadbabe 12 hours ago

          You’re absolutely right. It’s not my problem, it’s their problem.

naikrovek 18 hours ago

> I'm really sorry to have to ask this, but this really feels like you had an LLM write it?

Ending a sentence with a question mark doesn’t automatically make your sentence a question. You didn’t ask anything. You stated an opinion and followed it with a question mark.

If you intended to ask if the text was written by AI, no, you don’t have to ask that.

I am so damn tired of the “that didn’t happen” and the “AI did that” people when there is zero evidence of either being true.

These people are the most exhausting people I have ever encountered in my entire life.

  • jacquesm 15 hours ago

    You're right. Unfortunately they are also more and more often right.