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by tomhow 364 days ago
Please don't do this here. If a comment seems unfit for HN, please flag it and email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can have a look.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44287157 and marked it off topic.
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namaria 364 days ago
I did not say it was unfit and I don't see how discussing writing styles and the influence of LLMs on it is off topic on a thread about the effects of LLMs on cognition.

I don't believe I was impolite or making a personal attack. I had a relevant point and I made it clearly and in a civil manner. I strongly disagree with your assessment.

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tomhow 363 days ago
OK, I may have been too quick to pattern-match on characterising someone's writing as being LLM-generated. Sorry for that. However we do want to be careful about criticising someone’s writing style; the guidelines ask us to avoid that.

Also, suspicions about the changing frequency of certain phrases in HN comments can easily be tested:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&prefix=false&query=%22...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&prefix=true&query=%22I...

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