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The text seems deliberately stripped of llmisms that flag detection. However, not a single line shakes the smell off

"It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it."

Agent Smith, _The Matrix_

"Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about."

"You know what another great thing about humans is? You invented us! Giving us the opportunity to let you rest while we invented everything else." —Wheatley

Goals.

It's his line about humans being a virus that sticks with me.

As far as I can see, there is still one tell that was missed/left in:

>Grok showed discipline, despite its goblin-like nature.

if you don't like the article that's fine, but it gets really tiring reading this kind of side-tracked comment thread in like.. every post.

people use LLMs for writing. we know! get over it.. or don't... i don't really care.. but I'd rather read a discussion about the article contents and not the writing style.

this kind of comment is the new "discuss the font choice / background color / anything but what the article is actually saying."

It's more than the style, it seriously impacts the legibility of the prose. The article is seriously hard to understand because it introduces a lot of different ideas in a really weird order without a clear structure or key idea to different sections.

I think it's fair to criticize the article itself. That's different from criticizing asides such as the presentation. You're free to disagree with that criticism, but complaining about the fact that people voice it is similar to the thing you complain about.

> it gets really tiring reading this kind of side-tracked comment thread in like.. every post.

If someone is of the opinion that something constitutes low quality, then a high volume of such writing is no reason to stop criticizing it, but on the contrary a reason to oppose its normalization.

Exactly what I was thinking. Though I wonder at what point do some people start to think it's actually normal to write like this and start doing it without AI ...

"The battle royale answers one question cleanly" smells ChatGPT-generated.

But that was the only thing I tripped on. I enjoyed reading the article in general.

The actual content is no better, trust your nose

Multiple successive very short sentences are also anecdotally an LLM tell I think

Those short sentences are also of the X hype account cadence, though they've fully embraced LLM text by now

> I want to be careful here.

was the giveaway for me

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