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You're in for a surprise then, because this article is clearly in an LLM style. That doesn't mean it's hallucinated, no, there is a real human behind, but the actual content that you enjoyed is LLM-written.

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Give me that style guide and spread it around then!

Unfortunately as far as I know there's currently no way to do brain upload. I've interacted with LLMs for like 3 years, and after a while the brain gets turned into a very good classifier for most of the default LLM styles.

It's the overall structure of the article, the cadence itself, those short punchy sentences, negation. If you want some better evidence, Pangram flags 1/3 of this article as AI generated, but that's because they'd rather have a false negative than a false positive.

If you want another funny evidence piece, see https://lab-stack.com/blog/dgx-spark-memory-hard-wall/ - a random article I found by direct phrase search. It has a similar structure and "My initial theory was simple" word for word.

When the entire post is staccato sentences it's very easy to tell.

It's not just a sentence that it made, it redefines the structure of reading itself.

Is it? People can write staccato if they want to.

I genuinely don't understand why other people like this style. I find it positively dreadful.

It seems marginally better than average assuming it's LLM generated

I also saw the tells but found it direct enough that it wasn’t really a concern. LLM writing style is a good signal that something is slop and should be ignored but isn’t exactly causal... it would be an interesting exercise to try and write something very direct and clearly insightful, informative, etc (all the slashdot adjectives I guess) but do it with some clear LLM tells and see how many people summarily dismiss it.

Edit- upon rereading I think this is probably human written, but definitely has the LLM / LinkedIn style. In any event, it’s probably as close to be experiment I mention above as I’ve seen.

I don't think it is. It reads exactly the way I would write it myself.

Would you really write “Private video titles aren't just metadata”?

And write several subheadings starting with "The"? It adds up.

I think they were complementing the absence of trash talk, not the absence of LLM.

It's no secret LLM's can disseminate news in a superior fashion to 99% of human writers, when instructed properly

Confession:

I sometimes ask an LLM to explain something to a certain kind of audience. Usually I need to ask it to keep things briefer and which things to really focus on. I typically do 2-3 iterations and then manual editing to make it feel like 'me'. This would be for a 2-3 sentence kind of thing.

Not a native English speaker. I used to think I was pretty good, but I get way less misunderstood this way.

(I didn't use an LLM for this message.)

Maybe to someone who is new to the world.

"Disseminate news" is not the same as "write tolerable prose", however.

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