I managed to get to:
The cloud is the weak link
- No internet, no problem. ...
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If you are writing for other machines to ingest it, whatever. But if you are writing for people it for me at least signals that you don't really care about the message that you want to get across, and are fine with a watered down LLM average.
Or, of course, make the human texts excellent blog posts that fit the readers' area of expertise and there you go, evidence! People hate AI writing! The HN hivemind was right all along!
Tell people it's CGI, they won't be enthusiastic about it. But tell them it's "practical effects" and they will absolutely love it. Even when the movie has even more CGI than average... they will still praise it, and will even praise the CGI scenes they failed to identify as computer generated.
I'd like to see this evidence. I have very limited time and attention. LLMs are usually used to take the user's prompt and flower it up to 10x to 100x fluff. Just give me the prompt.
If you're personally getting a headache from reading AI writing, all this does is transfer that headache to the rest of us. Thanks. /s
In this case the article starts with "AI;DR: I wrote the first draft, AI helped me edit and rewrite it, and I made the final pass. The rules, setups, and talks are my own" so none of that applies.
I will not be happy because we will be lost as a culture when we give up on this.
By all means, pass it through an LLM for review if you really want, but you don't need to fix all the issues it finds, and you shouldn't let it remove the personality from your text by rewriting things. Because they will eagerly do that.
I would much rather read a post with a human voice - don't be afraid to just do it :)
So you are just signaling that you aren't reading specific types of LLM language that you can detect, but not all of them.
Its like you went to a potluck and brought a salad with you, you just closed your eyes and threw some things from the fridge together without thinking, it's all mixed together now and you don't know if something was old/moldy.
You are proud and happy that you brought a contribution, and you feel like your responsibility/duty ends there while the people who want to eat it have to be careful and fish things out, or just avoid it because they can't be sure if it was old or not.
Natural language is a non-verifiable domain due to the ambiguity of the intent, so we will never get away from this issue in LLM-land. You can't know intent of the writer unless they wrote it themselves.
I think it interesting that people are more upset about the complaint than the cause of the complaint.
If this place — a place where people are supposed to be sharing interesting things for techies and geeks — gives up on complaining about thoughtless nonsense, its culture dies.
I used to complain when web sites had huge whitespace margins on the left and right side of the text. I hate that! But most web sites do it, and complaining about it here accomplishes nothing and adds nothing to the conversation.
How do you envision that pushback if it's not people complaining about it?