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I feel like I'm starting to have an allergic reaction to the AI writing style. I can no longer unsee it, albeit I can't exactly pinpoint what about the text triggers this guttal reaction.

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Because it's a machine pretending to have experiences. It uses abstract phrasing by default in a way that people don't. So the output feels uncanny. Starting to see this all over reddit comments too. I don't know what the point of not writing your own comments is, other than spam.

We are really reaching a point where the internet is becoming so unbearable. People that don't write their comments often want to farm engagment or just wanna sound smart. Either way, the thirst is disgusting to me.

>I don't know what the point of not writing your own comments is, other than spam.

I think it will reach to the point of "dogfooding".

Those who's not crafting their own comments will be treated as those who's not using their written software.

I hear you, its the same for me tbh, BUT I strongly stand behind the content written. Writing skills are degrading.

How does the disclaimer fit into this?

> This article was written with the help of AI

At this point someone's low quality writing is more compelling than all these people who can't be bothered to express themselves. Like I could write this blog post in 10 seconds:

I realized recently that AI agents are so good that we don't need to read code anymore. I told my team to uninstall all their IDEs as an experiment. A few weeks later they agreed with me. Lanes is a tool that enables this new coding paradigm. I'd love it if you checked it out.

Easy.

I think what you're allergic to is marketing hyperbole-speak. That's kind of the default mode many of the models write in. I have my guesses for why that is, but I also have a belief that it's part of their training. Unless you explicitly ask for some other style, it's what you get.

I've become conditioned to go catatonic when I see a sentence structured like "It's not X (that is Y), it's Z"

It's all kinds of patterns. What stood out in this one is that almost all subheadings start with "The".

I notice that I'm even changing my writing style the moment I feel like I'm writing how an AI might write. Doesn't feel good either.

> I feel like I'm starting to have an allergic reaction to the AI

It's absolutely disgusting and I feel almost offended that I am supposed to spend time reading something that the author clearly hasn't even spent time writing.

I am okay with using AI or software to proofread and improve a piece of writing but this one is clearly fully written by AI, as is evident with the short sentences and the awkward writing style -- no human actually writes or talks like that.

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