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Comment by altmanaltman | Hacker News Reader

Click on their blog index page, see posts going back to early 2010s and use the same writing style. He must have been time travelling and using AI all this time!

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I had a look at their blog page out of curiosity, not that you can prove much from the purported dates and text on a blog, which could be edited at any time.

The blog posts from 2010s are in a completely different style and written by a human: https://www.greyblake.com/blog/vim-preview-plugin/ https://www.greyblake.com/blog/how-to-install-firefox-icewea... https://www.greyblake.com/blog/unexpected-ruby-behaviour/ ...

This new blog post is clearly AI edited (probably 'improved' with AI), the old ones are not.

The first link you cited[0] shows up on the Wayback Machine[1] for the first time on 2022-05-16 - more than 11 years after it was purportedly written.

[0] https://www.greyblake.com/blog/vim-preview-plugin/

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220516225844/https://www.greyb...

A page shows up in the Wayback Machine when it indexes it for the first time. The website itself goes back a lot if you look at the time. Here is a wayback machine link of a blog post from 2015 which got archived in 2017 for the first time (https://web.archive.org/web/20170607071648/http://greyblake....). Again, if you want to make an intelligent argument, at least know what you're talking about.

I think he's asked it to write in his specific style, or possibly he has edited parts of it to his style, or maybe used AI to generate the initial draft.

Something like that anyway. There are some very clear AI tells (smoking guns if you like), but most of it does not read like the prose AI produces by default.

Author if you are here I am curious about your writing process, and why you didn't remove the obvious AI tells.

> the same writing style

It's "fake corporate enthusiasm" style. LLMs were just trained in it.

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