came to say this. it's the AI writing cadence, I can smell it from 1000ft:
- Lots of "The" headings
- Always "why it matters"
- Machine gun style cadence of short sentences
I hate that AI has stolen my emdashes and I can't use them without looking like slop. But I will die defending markdown as my preferred note taking format. They're not taking that away from me.
Just on HN alone I think I've seen roughly 3948538902748750897520938 mentions of emdashes when others were complaining about slop in the past 2 months. It might as well be the unofficial slop logo. Folks are treating it like a dead giveaway.
I feel like a school friend of mine has been taken from me.
This piece might be a record for how quick it took me to smell the AI-tone and close the tab.. one paragraph! I'm sure it's an interesting bug but I can't stomach reading any more slop.
hate how it all has the same tone now
came to say this. it's the AI writing cadence, I can smell it from 1000ft: - Lots of "The" headings - Always "why it matters" - Machine gun style cadence of short sentences
I hate that AI has stolen my emdashes and I can't use them without looking like slop. But I will die defending markdown as my preferred note taking format. They're not taking that away from me.
How about not caring about what people on the internet say about your writing using emdashes?
They are a false positive signal for identifying AI texts anyway.
Em dashes aren’t stolen, it’s still clear from the overall voice of the text if it’s AI written or not.
At least, in reasonably long sections of text. I find it can be hard to tell one way or the other in shorter texts (like comments)
Just on HN alone I think I've seen roughly 3948538902748750897520938 mentions of emdashes when others were complaining about slop in the past 2 months. It might as well be the unofficial slop logo. Folks are treating it like a dead giveaway.
I feel like a school friend of mine has been taken from me.
The real dead giveaway is that the writing is bad.
It’s just people who don’t read books outing themselves. Ignore.
Without markdown I don't even know who I would be anymore.
This piece might be a record for how quick it took me to smell the AI-tone and close the tab.. one paragraph! I'm sure it's an interesting bug but I can't stomach reading any more slop.