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Comment by moconnor | Hacker News Reader

The landing page reads like it was written with an LLM.

Somehow this makes me immediately not care about the project; I expect it to be incomplete vibe-coded filler somehow.

Odd what a strong reaction it invokes already. Like: if the author couldn’t be bothered to write this, why waste time reading it? Not sure I support that, but that’s the feeling.

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I am very concerned about the long term effects of people developing the habit of mistrusting things just because they’re written in coherent English and longer than a tweet. (Which seems to be the criterion for “sounds like an LLM wrote it”.)

Haha. This is so true. I'm a bit long-winded myself and once got accused of being AI on here. I just don't communicate like Gen Alpha. I read their site and nothing jumped out as AI although it's possible they used it to streamline what they initially wrote.

I am not. More stupid people means it will be easier for me and my family to gone by :)

Wait until the bot herders realize you can create engagement by having a bot complain about texts being LLM-like.

What's odd is how certain people seem to be about their intuition about what is and isn't written by an LLM.

I don't think it feels particularly LLM-written, I can't find many of the usual tells. However, it is corporate and full of tired cliches. It doesn't matter if it's written by an LLM or not, it's not pleasant to read. It's a self-indulgent sales pitch.

It seems be popular here because of the ideas it proposes.

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