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Comment by zkmon | Hacker News Reader

I think we should stop discriminating or the pursuit of detecting LLM-generated content. This is not helping to stop the slop, it causing a harm - making the genuine human-generated content being branded as something bad. It's like branding words like "segregation, black/white" as racist. It is hijacking the common a language patterns and make them unusable in common human expression.

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I support this. There is a mass psychological effect emerging out of this AI-content-witch-hunt where people are manufacturing "flaws" to beat the AI-slop allegations.

To list out a few personal examples:

1. Several students I knew at GaTech in 2024 taking the algorithm class (which is notoriously hard) started submitting assignments with sub-optimal/brute-force algorithms cuz the TAs kept reporting them for academic misconduct on optimal solutions.

2. I've started avoiding "em-dashes" in all my writing

3. Junior engineers leaving "typos" in their code reviews or submitting code-reviews with absolutely 0 comments (LLMs love to leave verbose comments)

Gotta stop shaming people for using AI fr

People are being forced to express in suboptimal ways, just to avoid being detected as slop. Some others are instructing AI to inject some typos or write grammatically incorrect sentences. The whole "hey I detected that you have used AI" is so childish. It is same as "hey I knew that you used a car to get here, instead of walking". Ok, I will drive my car at walking speed and maybe replace it wheels with legs.

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