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Comment by kunai | Hacker News Reader

I do find it quite ironic that this piece reeks of LLM-writing while also simultaneously decrying the death of everything that is in antithesis to things like that. Is there a single shred of originality or shame left in the SV-adjacent writing sphere?

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"this piece reeks of LLM-writing…"

How so?

It's getting to feel like some weird kind of AI McCarthyism where everything is suspected of being manufactured.

Since I have no idea whether something is LLM-generated or not, I've instead decided to argue things on their merits alone.

Likely because it used common writing techniques, which people have now convinced themselves are a surefire way to identify AI content, because the AI, having been trained on writing that uses common writing techniques, also uses those techniques.

Best to treat it with some emotional distance. It's not like the optimization process feels it.

Whether be it human dullards, scripted botfarms, or even maleficence -- none of them experience shame. If they do see it at all, it would be as one of many factors to boost engagement.

Fuck boosting engagement.

There is an ever-dwindling minority of people who think "fuck boosting engagement" is a valid strategy in this era. Online, engagement is everything. We have all, through social media and feed algorithms, been reduced to acting out the most insipid style of court-jester antics to try and garner attention; the SNR is just too high for good content to thrive.

"The lesson is not just to resist. It is to grow up."

Barf.

AI slop that complains about how AI is ruining the Internet is a trending genre on Hacker News.

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