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this has ai writing smell all over it. entire paragraphs that just say it's-not-this-it's-that over and over again

It's a construct that long predates AI. And using it with such intensity and frequency is more likely a sign that this _wasn't_ AI generated, since AI writing tends to _not_ repeat things quite so often.

I doubt a human would use it repetitively, even if it is common. This was most likely written paragraph-by-paragraph by AI, causing the repetition, if I had to guess.

I can't wait for the EU AI Act to require mandatory labelling for AI-generated content.

> EU AI Act to require mandatory labelling for AI-generated content.

No thanks. How would you find violators, with AI detectors? Might as well go back to throwing people into lakes to see if they float.

The AI turned me into a newt!

Why does it matter? The information in the post still accurately captures a sentiment held by many people.

The complaint is definitely getting old. I wonder how many HN threads at this point don't have someone speculating about AI-generated content.

Hopefully @dang adds something to the guidelines to discourage it.

AI generated content in the comments is already prohibited. I hope we extend the restrictions to submissions entirely.

I would rather people who don't currently have a voice due to language barriers or simply poor communications skills be able to use LLMs than try to gatekeep them.

And I'm certainly weary of "someone used an em-dash, must be GPT" low-value comments.

I certainly hope we gatekeep them. "I just need my hallucinatory text generator to translate for me" -> "I just need my hallucinatory text generator to refine my thoughts for me" -> "I just need my hallucinatory text generator to generate my comment for me". This is a damn near antithesis of this place.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I hope so. Random accusations of "this feels like AI" don't add anything to the conversation and are genuinely harmful to those accused when there is no AI involved.

AI has it's demons, for sure, but there is an awful lot of jumping at ghosts these days.

perhaps it is the nature of their thought process

perhaps they blur their poetry

did they use an LLM in 2020: https://www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2020/how-much-the-worl...

I had the same reaction. The disclaimer at the bottom doesn't mention AI, but I have a feeling this was generated from a prompt to consolidate the 24 human submissions into a single essay.

Tangentially, I really look forward to the day "Not X but Y" stops being so overused by LLMs. It's a valid and useful construction in a vacuum, one which we should be able to use, but its overuse has gone past semantic satiety into something like semantic emesis.

Most of the "this is AI" complaints demonstrate the illiteracy of many of those making them.

Say more, I'd love to know how this is a demonstration of illiteracy

Because "I haven't seen this literary tool" or "I wouldn't think to use it" or "It doesn't match my perception of human literary tools", it must be artificial.

It's far more telling that you'd imagine this is a literary tool so interesting or complex that other people haven't seen it or thought of it

https://www.google.com/search?q=it%27s+not+x+its+y

Speaking about telling it's called negative parallelism not " it's not x it's y". Don't be proud of ignorance even if you don't care for the subject.

Kinda funny how we went full circle with you calling me ignorant and illiterate on the basis of not using your preferred terminology, as opposed to the actual, obvious meaning of the subject

Ignorant and illiterate don't take the whip from me if you are so generous with it on yourself.

this comment has ai writing smell all over it.

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