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This is a very obviously AI written article, I don't get why these newspapers think that this is the future. Just look at this, but this style is all over the entire article: "Graphics cards are typically the most expensive components in a computer. So, when you get your hands on one for free, it's like the universe finally throwing a bone at you, rewarding you for years of kindness and suffering. Then, if that GPU suddenly gets enveloped in a legal feud, you start to second-guess your alliances, shattering loyalties in a moment"

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Absolutely not. Tom's Hardware is known for this kind of colorful but also lazy writing, but it's an ok news site that has been around for decades. And maybe the author might have used a trickle of AI, but I don't see any sign that any significant amount of this article is AI.

Additionally, even though they're not fully reliable, most popular AI detectors rate this article as 100% human.

You can see this author has been writing similar low-effort listicles and articles since well before ChatGPT came out. The writing style also matches:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200811132340/https://appuals.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20221021195546/https://www.wepc....

hm I guess it's possible, they show a similar kind of very mechanical writing style across two different authors from before AI was a thing. Maybe that's unfortunate for them because it's similar to how AI would enumerate facts to tell a story.

You've got your cause and effect flipped.

They don't sound like AI. AI sounds like them, because this is exactly the type of content that the LLMs were trained on and tuned to replicate.

It's almost like the entire point of LLM's was to alienate the author or wordsmith from their works. To commoditize composition from it's dependence on a human being so that the authorial dependency could be reduced to merely possession of a GPU and the electricity to run it. No one wants to say the quiet part out loud though.

/barf

Thanks for saving me the read, I wish we(or the HN team) could flag these posts as AI-authored.

per HN these days every article is AI written so you can stop reading all together :)

Only every article one dislikes.

Man, this is Tom's Hardware, and the author (H. Nasir) isn't exactly a contnent mill. He doesn't reference AI in any source, and this article is in line with his other writing styles.

It worries me that the "average HNer" doesn't perform independent analysis on even the headlines anymore, but rather the "top comment/flavor of the month" opinion at the top of the discussion.

It is...dangerous to then say "I wish we we could flag these posts as AI-authored"

Dang has done an incredible job with the flagging system, and it is reliant on the shared understanding of the users here that we are all acting in good faith and not performing surface level analysis/criticism.

I'm pretty sure I don't want bones to be thrown at me.

There goes my theory that, on the internet, everyone else is a dog.

Sends shivers down your spine :)

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