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@stupidlikeafox.bsky.social

That one was the only one I had a particularly hard time with.

steve

@golgariglenross.bsky.social

I’m closer than I’ve ever been to becoming Ted Kaczynski

Yeah

Ted Kaczynski? The mathematician?

Parsingphase

@parsingphase.dev

"Better known for other work", per Lara Pudwell

Brittany

@sameoldstory.co

even preferring human writing, NYT seems to suggest perhaps I don’t?

Björn Jörges

@bjorges.bsky.social

What in the pro AI propaganda is this shit, Jesus Christ

Mark F

@markfford.bsky.social

So the goal is to smooth everything out so it’s soup or slop? Hell no and no to that hell.

Okay now I'm curious though - what does it say if you preferred AI writing? Can anybody take that bullet for the rest of us?

@aldonanana.myatproto.social

I took the bullet, sorry everyone for contributing to the stats (but also who cares about the stats it's clickbait) It's not even juicy or anything but for info:

dona 🍤🥔

Thank you! I was curious. Not surprised it’s some AI booster bullshit. “The gap is closing”?? Trained on “the sum of all human knowledge”?? Not to mention the idea that “produc[ing] writing with broad appeal” is a goal AND also a likely result of being trained on “many of humanity’s greatest books”

patguy

@patguy.bsky.social

But there's literally nothing wrong with that McCarthy sentence in grammar, punctuation or sense.

Toby Bartels

@tobybartels.name

I'm seriously trying to figure out what punctuation this writer thinks it's missing. My best guess is that they misunderstood it.

@qwertymartin.bsky.social

I agree, and I'd further guess that they misunderstood it because they're an LLM bsky.app/profile/cara...

Caravelle@caravellin.bsky.social

In fact it's so egregious I've come around to the suspicion this is LLM-generated. Like, a human *could* make this mistake - if they'd never read the context and/or did not read English well - but it's way more likely of an LLM IMO. It's the exact "vibes over substance" mistake you'd expect of one.

Martin Griffiths

All I can think of is that they thought there was a comma missing after "As well" and it is supposed to mean "Also, ask men what they think of stone."

Pavel

@spavel.bsky.social

@littleraskol.bsky.social

Unsurprisingly, a rag that keeps firing human writers needs to convince its audience that perfectly smooth texture-less slop is preferable.

An Intersectional Gipper

@accountabilabuddy.bsky.social

this is so fucking infuriating

An Intersectional Gipper@littleraskol.bsky.social

"Looks like you guessed, out of a perverse defiant impulse, that some pathetic meatbag made a bunch of these quotes by looking for primitive and vestigial elements like 'a distinctive style,' which our perfect machines have sanded down to a smooth, homogenous word slurry" go fuck yourself!!!!

Accountabilabuddy🔻

That block of text was written by a chatbot. No wonder it's so offended you chose human creativity instead.

Tim Price

@timprice.bsky.social

“The most distinctive thing about human writing is how it sucks and is full of mistakes.”

"Take, for example, this stone-cold banger that doesn't contain a mistake: "

Litbowl

@litbowl.bsky.social

Like... does Roose think it's supposed to be "As well, ask a man"? That would be nonsense in context and mean something completely different. There's literally no missing punctuation, mistake OR intentional.

Elvie 🕯️🕯️🕯️

@elviereads.bsky.social