[HN Gopher] The consumption of AI-generated content at scale
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The consumption of AI-generated content at scale
Author : ivansavz
Score : 11 points
Date : 2025-12-01 22:08 UTC (7 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.sh-reya.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.sh-reya.com)
| bryanrasmussen wrote:
| yeah everything sounds like AI, and why is that? Well it might be
| because everything is AI but I think that writing style is more
| LinkedIn than LLM, the style of people who might get slapped down
| if they wrote something individual.
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| Much of the world has agreed to sound like machines.
|
| Another thing I've noticed is that weird stuff that is perhaps
| off in some way, also gets accused of being LLMs because it
| doesn't feel right.
|
| If you sound unique and weird you get accused of being a bad LLM
| that can't falsify humanity well enough, and if you sounds boring
| and bland and boosterist, you get accused of being a good LLM.
|
| You can't write like no one else, but you also can't write like
| everybody else.
| 1bpp wrote:
| Text feeling awkward or not flowing very well has ironically
| become a very strong signal for human-written text for me, and
| usually makes me pay more attention now
| chemotaxis wrote:
| The best part is that this article is almost certainly AI-
| generated or heavily AI-assisted too.
|
| Before people get angry with me... there's plenty of small tells,
| starting with section headings, a lot of linguistic choices, and
| low information density... but more importantly, the author
| openly says she writes using LLMs: https://www.sh-
| reya.com/blog/ai-writing/#how-i-write-with-ll...
| absoluteunit1 wrote:
| Was thinking this as well.
|
| Just skimming throught the first two paragraphs felt like I as
| reading a ChatGPT response. That and the fact that there's
| multiple em dashes in the intro alone.
| phainopepla2 wrote:
| I would think a decent LLM would know the difference between a
| metaphor and simile, unlike the author
| SunshineTheCat wrote:
| What's crazy is you're starting to see an overreaction to this
| fact as well.
|
| The other day I posted a short showcasing some artwork I made for
| a TCG I'm in the process of creating.
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| Comments poured in saying it was "doomed to fail" because it was
| just "AI slop"
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| In the video itself I explained how I made them, in Adobe
| Illustrator (even showing some of the layers, elements, etc).
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| Next I'm actually posting a recording of me making a character
| from start to finish, a timelapse.
|
| Will be interesting if I get any more "AI slop" comments, but
| it's becoming increasingly difficult to share anything drawn now
| because people immediately assume it's generated.
| p_l wrote:
| The people commenting about AI Slop, at least considerable
| portion, do so because it allows them to feel morally superior
| at little effort.
|
| Do not expect them to retract or stop if there's a way to not
| see the making of :P
| phainopepla2 wrote:
| I have seen this as well. Any nicely formatted medium to long
| text without obvious errors immediately comes under suspicion,
| even without the obvious tells
| furyofantares wrote:
| Scroll through and read only the section headers. I would be
| shocked if this wasn't at the very least run through an LLM
| itself. For sure the section headers are, I'll skip the rest
| unless someone posts that it's worth a read for some reason.
|
| It doesn't appear to be section headings glued together with
| bullet lists so maybe the content really does retain the author's
| perspective but at this point I'd rather skip stuff I know has
| been run through an LLM and miss a few gems rather than get
| slopped daily.
| krupan wrote:
| "Now, with LLM-generated content, it's hard to even build mental
| models for what might go wrong, because there's such a long tail
| of possible errors. An LLM-generated literature review might cite
| the right people but hallucinate the paper titles. Or the titles
| and venues might look right, but the authors are wrong."
|
| This is insidious and if humans were doing it they would be fired
| and/or cancelled on the spot. Yet we continue to rave about how
| amazing LLMs are!
|
| It's actually a complete reversal on self driving car AI. Humans
| crash cars and hurt people all the time. AI cars are already much
| safer drivers than humans. However, we all go nuts when a Waymo
| runs over a cat, but ignore the fact that humans do that on a
| daily basis!
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| Something is really broken in our collective morals and reasoning
| tensegrist wrote:
| > There's a frustration I can't quite shake when consuming
| content now--
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| perhaps even a frustration you can't quite name
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