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Comment by isoprophlex | Hacker News Reader

is this slop? is this an ad? it's both!

dont bother reading this. besides the overwrought statement in the title there is nothing novel or intellectually stimulating here, and it wants to sell you something.

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It's an ad but the jQuery analogy is apt.

Probably could have said it in much fewer words, though.

>> Probably could have said it in much fewer words, though.

So in other words, it's AI slop

It's an honest opinion that I had put into a blog post. It's written by me, though I did use LLMs to review and improve it (no copy pasting). I still feel like the analogy between early browsers and the current state of AI stands. There is in a sense a war being fought out and there are emerging standard and there is lot's of glue around that to make it work.

For what it’s worth, I did think it was an interesting line of thought -

The thing about LLM-generated content is that in order to get tracking it can’t look like it. Can’t read like it, can’t use the wording or the style of prose. It’s too much of a turnoff, it provokes revulsion.

You’re better off doing the opposite - use the LLM to help you with your initial content, then finish it yourself, taking care to remove the ‘tells’

It has all the tells, em dashes as far as the eye can see, it even has the “Let me explain” from ChatGPT.

I wrote the post in notion which converts "--" to emdashes automatically.

Also more than a few “it’s not X, it’s Y”

Isn’t it a rule that if you’re going to write about LLMs you have to use an LLM to do it?

Thank you for saving me many minutes. It has happened more and more recently that 'interesting' headlines lead to AI slop blog posts and it just all feels like such a waste of time. Sad that content has degenerated in this way.

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