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I was interested in reading this until my slop detector went off at the paragraph starting with “It's worth being precise about where the benefit comes from, because it isn't raw speed.”

I love AI, but I really hate reading it.

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I have had to stop commenting this because it would end up on 50% of the posts here. I really wish we could flag prose as ai-generated on here and just filter it out.

Drives me nuts that comments are held to a higher standard than submissions.

HN is for conversation between humans[1] (about AI generated blogspam, apparently)

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Meta recently added a filter as a requirement for posts on Facebook. if it was ai generated, you are required to check off a box for that on your posts.

I've been asking for that for some time.

This is only to help them filter out AI generations for their own training data. There is no way you can "block" all "ai generated content" from your view.

Don’t stop commenting about it, if there is something we (the readers) can do is ensure it is seen as uncool to post slop content

fine but please realize that also just pushes people away from caring about the comment section at all, too.

I can only read so many (either pro OR against) ".. IT'S AI! ! !" comments before skipping the thread. I can't be the only one.

LinkedIn (of all places!) announced a button for flagging this recently: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hsrinivasan1_ai-slop-is-a-top...

How well it would work on this site, I'm not sure.

If it works, it’s going to be the best feature introduced by a social network in a long time. Incredible that it comes from LinkedIn.

I wonder if the realised the entire website has become the most unbearable AI slop imaginable and if they don't do anything about it they won't have any real humans reading posts, just agents trying to advertise to each other.

Next up, LinkedIn starts using this feedback to train a classifier. They then announce an officially approved "not slop" classification only for LinkedIn Gold member posts. The classified posts have a wider reach due to everyone filtering out AI slop. Non-members automatically get bucketed in with the slop bc they don't pay to have the verified classifier run on them.

seems like at that point it'd be a bigger benefit for LinkedIn to provide the one and only model trained to subvert the human capability to detect slop using that new negative corpus.

then we're all screwed I guess. lol

Better would have been to offer a button to flag something that does NOT seem like AI slop on LinkedIn.

If there is an action on AI slop on LI, it will end up with almost no posts at all

Recently, I wrote a small script for myself that scrapes the comments to see if anyone already said it's AI, and if so, grays out the article...

> “It's worth being precise about where the benefit comes from, because it isn't raw speed.“

What's funny it's that is as if AI "learned" to speak english but not really. People simply don't speak using those strange constructs: those sentences sound a bit like if a "Karen" was trying to make a point.

What's scary, to me, as a dev using AI, is that those LLMs do the same thing with code: it looks like proper code, but it really ain't so once you dig a bit.

It's verbose and doesn't add anything: it's just infinite verbiage / sloppy-pasta.

Crazy thing though it's that it's 2026 and apparently devs can't be bothered to copy/paste their sloppy-pasta LLMish into a de-sloppifier before publishing blog posts.

"What's scary, to me, as a dev using AI, is that those LLMs do the same thing with code: it looks like proper code, but it really ain't so once you dig a bit."

Of course it always looks better, than it is, but it still works for me as in the code does what I asked the agent to.

What's the tell, other than it butchering the context (bad writing)? The article as a whole doesn't seem horribly LLMy. The overall topic is pretty dry, and that sentence is honkingly bad, but not all bad writing is LLM-originated -- sometimes insufficient proofreading is at fault.

Cloudflare blogs are not meant to be human-read, AFAIK. They're raw material meant to be fed into an agent to be filtered down. I rarely read the contents because they are usually word-expanded to a greater degree than an article from The Atlantic.

That’s disappointing, in the past cloudflare had some of the best engineering blog articles

I don't disagree, but at some point in the last year they ended up severely word-expanded. So in a revealed sense, they are no longer meant for human consumption except for those who don't significantly value their own time. There is very little information in the post that an agent can't pull for you:

* they use quantized models

* they quantize KV cache

* they have a cache tagging mechanism to prevent cache misuse (neat)

The agent can extract numbers without filler prose as well.

I'm getting somewhat conflicted. There is a Twitter account I follow that has great takes and lots of deeply personal posts... BUT he obviously uses an LLM in his writing pipeline somewhere. Too many AIisms scattered about to ignore.

I'm not thrilled with it, but he is obviously using it to improve his writing overall- to communicate some great ideas that are personal and germane. I've decided that being too inflexible serves no one. If it is true slop, I'll not revisit the writer in the future- if they are using AI to polish writing that at its core is a unique voice, I'll accept it and learn to live with it...

Came here to comment this.

I hope you can get over it, because before long literally everything will be written by AI. Millions of people write with this every day.

That makes human written content even more valuable to advertisers.

After all, why would advertisers want to advertise to bots? This whole sentiment of "You'all need to allow my bot postings in your group" is getting tiresome. There's plenty of places where your bot can talk to other bots, publish for other bots, etc.

Sounds like a great way to filter out all the pointless garbage on the internet.

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