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Comment by whalesalad | Hacker News Reader

Folks, please fix your AI generated ascii artwork that is way out of alignment. This is becoming so prevalent - instant AI tell.

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The "This is the key insight -" or "x is where it gets practical -", are dead give aways too. If I wanted an LLMs explanation of how it works, I can ask an LLM. When I see articles like this I'm expecting an actual human expert

This one too: "It’s a proven pattern."

And waste time and energy again to get a similar result?

An article written by an expert is nothing like this. You might be able to get something similar out of an LLM but it's gonna take a lot more effort then was out into this.

I imagine it's not the AI then, but the site font/css/something. Seeing as it looks fine for me (Brave, Linux).

Are you on a phone? I loaded the article with both my phone and laptop. The ascii diagram was thoroughly distorted on my phone but it looked fine on my laptop.

Firefox on a 27" display. Could be the font being used to render.

The only ASCII image I see on that page is actually a PNG:

https://tuananh.net/img/buildkit-llb.png

Maybe the page was changed? If you're just talking about the gaps between lines, that's just the line height in whatever source was used to render the image, which doesn't say much about AI either way.

looks fine to me but since it messed up for some so i replace it with png

I found it more jarring that they chose to use both Excalidraw and ascii art. What a strange choice.

the hugo theme requires an image thumbnail. i just find one and use it :D

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