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by tumult 824 days ago
Yeah, this does seem AI generated, or at least “AI assisted” in that it was primarily written by AI and a human slightly modified it and then stamped their name on it.

Just look at this paragraph:

“Many laptops sit on a charger throughout the workday and all through the night. We don’t even think about it; we just plug in everywhere. We’re charging at work, at home, at the coffee shop – a collective addiction to a laptop at 100% battery. There’s nothing more frustrating than a laptop that can’t hold a charge, but your charging addiction may be accelerating the issue.”

It’s entirely air. It says nothing. The transition to the “There’s nothing more frustrating than a laptop that can’t hold a charge” sentence also doesn’t make sense. It’s like an 11th grader padding their essay to 1000 words, except the entire article is like that.

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But I feel like LLM wouldn't make such non-sensical content, unless they used some obscure LLM.

The article is over dramatized causing false statements, doesn't use any of the usual GPT4 lingo etc.

E.g. claiming that it is the "worst thing you could do".

Could be, yeah.