Comment by paganel
Comment by paganel 4 days ago
It certainly looks like AI slop, so I stopped reading pretty fast.
Comment by paganel 4 days ago
It certainly looks like AI slop, so I stopped reading pretty fast.
It's also a pretty clear indication of AI undeniably passing the turing test in case that was in debate still.
No one can really tell if what's AI generated or not anymore. We're all going by vibes and undoubtedly getting it wrong.
i don't think that's what this means. it just means to me a certain population of people are clueless and don't use these tools enough. what's _actually_ damaging/obnoxious are the ones arguing that this guy is a good writer and that this isn't AI. IMO, telling the difference can be as simple as looking for the common giveaways, or as complex as reading between the lines of the structure of sentences, the terrible adjectives, and the soullessness of it. If you have half a brain and are well read, you can _probably_ tailor these LLMs to write in a way that reads better. But, it requires people to read a lot of content and literature to understand what good writing is, and this contrived, overly convoluted soulless soup of words is certainly not an example of it.
i've been using AI for as long as GPT has been out, so if you can't see through the rambling, overly complex to make you sound smarter kind of text, as well as the written patterns that are always used ad nauseam like "this thing isn't JUST this, it's THIS" -- i dunno how else to prove it to you. IYKYK.
I have also used GPTs since 2020. I am also a writer. Much of the writing equated with “generated by AI” is so precisely because it’s broadly trained on real writing.
So the claim of “AI slop” without proof is little more than heresy. It would be helpful to have any evidence.
It’s not about just the writing in one example, it’s about writing patterns—which are common—being equated with AI simply because they’re common.
if you're a writer, and you're using GPT for so long and you can't see it as obvious, i dunno what to tell you at this point. i guess LLMs are trained particularly on this guy's writing.
> i dunno how else to prove it to you
A prompt to generate similar output would be a good start.
how's this for your prompt, pal https://xcancel.com/PlumbNick/status/2016590894485385347#m
hopefully that's enough of a good start and a good end for this conversation
It’s pretty sad that when people write well now, others dismiss it as AI.