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by blueblimp 413 days ago
I feel it too:

- Plenty of em-dashes

- "you're absolutely right"

- "They're X, not just Y"

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Not just that, also notice the curly apostrophe (’) vs the usual keyboard straight apostrophe (') mark.
The sheer number of AI written message board posts might just make me stop reading the comments on sites like Reddit and HN. I wanted to stop anyway, this seems like a good push to encourage me to wean myself.
Every one of us leaving (not engaging/commenting) increases the share of AI generated comments (vs real users) the next iteration will train on. I'm not even sure which option is worse. Withdraw and let everyone dilute their own training data, or stay and feed them our mindset and experience...?
Build our own spaces.
Post history indicates that user likes em-dashes('--'). Probably written on a phone that converts -- to em-dash.
Or they are just a bot.
Their post history doesn't seem suspicious to me
To be fair, only 3 posts within "possible LLM usage" timeframe. Also I don't think using LLM to comment == bot. More curious about the motivation behaviour such behaviour, if it is occurring
also the

- "some introduction or callback: description or phrase"