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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”

Also fun that "the gap is closing" but AI is already "trained on the sum of all human knowledge". What improvements could you possibly expect in the future then?

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."

Toby Bartels

@tobybartels.name

Yes, that's all that I could think of.

Madame Hardy

@madamehardy.bsky.social

Oh, my God, you're right. The horror.

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.

"Roose"? Are you saying that bit of writing has a byline attached to it? ... and that it's Kevin Roose? OK I was worried there for a second but the "an LLM wrote it" hypothesis still has legs after all

Elvie 🕯️🕯️🕯️

@elviereads.bsky.social