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Was this written by an LLM? Not accusative but something about the vibe strongly suggests it

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I feel it too:

- Plenty of em-dashes

- "you're absolutely right"

- "They're X, not just Y"

Not just that, also notice the curly apostrophe (’) vs the usual keyboard straight apostrophe (') mark.

The sheer number of AI written message board posts might just make me stop reading the comments on sites like Reddit and HN. I wanted to stop anyway, this seems like a good push to encourage me to wean myself.

Every one of us leaving (not engaging/commenting) increases the share of AI generated comments (vs real users) the next iteration will train on. I'm not even sure which option is worse. Withdraw and let everyone dilute their own training data, or stay and feed them our mindset and experience...?

Build our own spaces.

Post history indicates that user likes em-dashes('--'). Probably written on a phone that converts -- to em-dash.

Or they are just a bot.

Their post history doesn't seem suspicious to me

To be fair, only 3 posts within "possible LLM usage" timeframe. Also I don't think using LLM to comment == bot. More curious about the motivation behaviour such behaviour, if it is occurring

also the

- "some introduction or callback: description or phrase"

This is beginnings of AI discrimination. If an answer is written by an LLM but equal or superior in quality to a human answer why question or disparage it?

I don't know but it looks like you're probably a white guy. Your mannerisms and vibes make it look like you're white. Nothing wrong with this, just wanted to point it out. See what I'm saying.

It's like the blade runner movies.

I find this comment odd but not at all discriminatory and will happily inform that yes, I am white British. I can see the point you’re going for but I do think it’s more complex than that. I don’t think LLMs are equivalent to another human race. Principally, LLMs have many pretty major differences to humans which you don’t really see at the inter-racial level. Secondly the reasoning for why asking someone their race in this context would be weird involved a lot of human history. If you’d asked my height or eye colour there’s nothing discriminatory feeling about that. That historical context doesn’t exist with LLMs

The LLM provided an answer that has superior quality or equal quality to a human. Then instead of judging the statement rationally on this quality we decided to judge the question on whether or not it was AI.

This is the same irrationality we used to discriminate humans. There is no difference in logic. The reasoning you used here about how LLMs are not equivalent to human beings is the same reasoning Hitler used on Jewish people.

And here’s the thing. I agree with you. If you gassed and holocausted LLMs wouldn’t give two shits.

The main point here is that the logic and irrationality and evil present in racism is all at work here. We are literally being discriminatory, there’s no difference. Everyone missed the point about the quality of the statement itself and immediately based their judgement on whether or not it’s AI as if that was actually a rational thing to do. (It’s not).

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