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Comment by Zee2 | Hacker News Reader

This is AI-written.

- Ten em-dashes

- "not just A, but B"

    - wasn’t just a vacuum cleaner; it was a small computer on wheels
    - they didn’t merely create a backdoor; they utilized it
    - they hadn’t merely incorporated a remote control feature. They had used it to permanently disable my device

- incessant bullet points/markdown-style formatting

- And an overly dramatic/promotional tone

Obviously the image is AI as well, but /shrug

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I don’t see why you’re being downvoted.

Because using good typography and editing is not a unique fingerprint of AI generated content.

AI's habit of writing every story as a bullet-point list really isn't a good writing style.

It was until AI started doing it everywhere. When I took technical writing course in college, many years ago, breaking up paragraphs with bullet-point lists was one of the core techniques taught for writing clear, effective documentation.

I don’t think there’s any single way to be sure, but it sure reads like ChatGPT to me. Which I’m not sure is such a bad thing—I presume the author used an AI to help them write the story, but the story is real. Or maybe they edited it themselves to make it sound more generic. Whatever the reason, the style takes away from my reading experience. It’s a blog post, I expect some personality!

Yeah, stopped reading immediately when I noticed this

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