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Comment by mrheosuper | Hacker News Reader

There is AI smell in this article. I think it's "The system's elegant constraints" part, way too similar to AI's writing.

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It's also wrong/limited to US-manufactured cars. The 2nd and 3rd letter outside of the North America doesn't follow the convention of country, and manufacturer.

For example Alfa Romeo has Z, followed by AR; Fiat has ZFA. German-made BMWs (as opposed to US-made ones) have WB...

Yeah. I noticed a lot of "It's not just X. It's Y." which is the biggest tell for me.

I think that is extremely common in adverts (most famously here, the M&S "It's not just bread. It's our stone-baked, hand-shaped artisanally-molested bread"), and narrative media like that distinctive kind of journalism written like a storybook, and which (I think) then bled into popular media like true-crime podcasts: "It wasn't just Tuesday. It was the last Tuesday he would ever see. <intro music>".

Also this kind of short sentence construction is used in the incredibly annoying and pervasive style of headlines for opinion pieces: X is Y. And it's Z. (where Z is often "not OK" or "OK").

I assume all this overuse is where LLMs picked it up and weighted it highly.

Is this itself an AI generated comment? The word "just" appears 1 time in the article.

The term “not just” doesn’t appear in the text.

I think it was a simplified example. The exact text is:

> What emerged wasn't just a unique identifier. It was a compressed database record

It's AI slop and undisclosed self promotion for an "AI startup"

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