Item — HN Reader

It's almost depressing to me how much this post feels like a breath of fresh air if for nothing else than because it's clearly hand-written, not ghost-written by LLM.

No repetitive short sentences, no "Not X, just Y." patterns, and lots of opinionated statements, written confidently in the first person.

Please more of this.

4 comments

> Please more of this.

Same, I'm caring less about "Yeah, I've learned something new" and more about "Yeah, this sounds like I'm reading the thoughts of a human, how refreshing" which is a sad state of affairs.

I've adopted my own writing style because of this too, used to be very careful about spelling and grammar, very nitpicky, but have now stopped doing that, because people started calling my perfectly spelled responses LLM-generated...

I have this when I use an em-dash (--), which I do automatically.

This is annoying to say the least, just because there is no "made with love by ChatGPT" stamp on LLM-produced stuff (which is far from being bad BTW)

If God didn't want me to use the em dash, why did he enshrine it in

nature? In the horizon line—the lightning-harrowed bough—the canyon's

pink striation—the pupil of the goat

    — @ctrlcreep

https://twitter.com/ctrlcreep/status/1808321708627317061

https://nitter.net/ctrlcreep/status/1808321708627317061

Completely off-topic, but I recently had my "AI-depression moment" when I found out top domain writer.com is owned by an AI company now.

It’s also relatively short and concise :)

I used to think that “omit needless words” was a bit too strict to be meaningful… and then I read AI slop.

He showed that it wasn’t only easy to not sound like AI—but that it was imperative for culture to flourish. Whether composing long hand or typing with a mechanical keyboard in Vim, he took back online discourse, one blogpost at a time. /s