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> Every entry below points at a real paper that the working group adopted. None of these are arguments. They are admissions in writing.

I smell AI. If you don't write it, I don't read it.

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> This is what fifteen years of standards work on a five-letter keyword ['volatile'] looks like.

How many letters are in the word 'volatile' ?

Woof. Didn't even bother to proofread the AI slop. Wow.

I think we need a "Flag AI Slop" button.

That's just the "Flag" button.

Itd be better if these domains were banned

Although it's AI, I am surprised how many references it added correctly.

don't care, it has all the right points

Better get used to it, the art of writing without AI assistance is dead. You will occasionally find some of it like a truffle in the woods, but that was it. And even if the next generation will attempt stringing a few sentences together by hand it will sound like AI, because they grew up spending more time talking to AI than anyone else.

I attend a local writer’s group in my area, where people write in person within a time limit. The art of writing without AI assistance still lives, but it’s not online and probably not discussing the C++ standard library.

If I want to read a LLM's "opinion" on some subject I just prompt it myself. Inserting humans as intermediaries that pretend they wrote something is dishonest at best. Future generations will hopefully see through that and stop sign generated texts with fake human names.

Really? When someone's already warmed the Earth slightly and used the energy and spent the tokens to do it once, you're going to do it again, just to spite them, because you hate the environment? And because you're rich and have unlimited tokens to spend on anything?

Using a cache of outputs makes sense, but that is just an optimization. I don't mind if a site publishes generated texts, as long as they are clearly labelled as such and have no fake-writer human names attached.

this kind of overt inevitabilism is complicity in the death of good writing.

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