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I doubt it. "hacker news" spelled lowercase? comma after "beauty"? missing "in" after "it's"? i doubt an LLM would make such syntax mistakes. it's just good writing, that's also possible these days.

> it's just good writing, that's also possible these days.

As someone reskilling into being a writer, I really do not think that is "good writing".

There's a thing in soccer at the moment where a tackle looks fine in realtime but when the video referee shows it to the onpitch referee, they show the impact in slo-mo over and over again and it always looks way worse.

I wonder if there's something like this going on here. I never thought it was LLM on first read, and I still don't, but when you take snippets and point at them it makes me think maybe they are

Even if so, would it have mattered? The point is showing off the SQLite DB.

But it didn’t read LLM generated IMO.

Why do you say that?

Because anything that even slightly differs from the standard American phrasing of something must be "LLM generated" these days.

Sometimes I want to write more creatively, but then worry I’ll be accused of being an LLM. So I dumb it down. Remove the colorful language. Conform.

Fuck 'em.

Always write what you want, however you want to write it. If some reader somewhere decides to be judgemental because of — you know — an em dash or an X/Y comparison or a complement or some other thing that they think pins you down as being a bot, then that's entirely their own problem. Not yours.

They observe the reality that they deserve.

You’re absolutely right. It’s not my problem, it’s their problem.

With the em dashes I see you. But at this point idrc so long as it reads well. Everyone uses spell check…

I add em dashes to everything I write now, solely to throw people who look for them off. Lots of editors add them automatically when you have two sequential dashes between words — a common occurrence, like that one. And this is is Chrome on iOS doing it automatically.

Ooh, I used “sequential”, ooh, I used an em dash. ZOMG AI IS COMING FOR US ALL

Anyone demonstrating above a high-school vocabulary/reading level is obviously a machine.

Ya—in fact, globally replaced on iOS (sent from Safari)

Also for reference: “this shortcut can be toggled using the switch labeled 'Smart Punctuation' in General > Keyboard settings.”

I also use Em-Dashes, this is about how weird the thing is tonally

It feels like a LLM doing it's usual "gushing out appreciations"

> I'm really sorry to have to ask this, but this really feels like you had an LLM write it?

Ending a sentence with a question mark doesn’t automatically make your sentence a question. You didn’t ask anything. You stated an opinion and followed it with a question mark.

If you intended to ask if the text was written by AI, no, you don’t have to ask that.

I am so damn tired of the “that didn’t happen” and the “AI did that” people when there is zero evidence of either being true.

These people are the most exhausting people I have ever encountered in my entire life.

You're right. Unfortunately they are also more and more often right.

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