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by jjmarr 310 days ago
The use of en dashes and short staccato sentences for rhetorical flourishes are a giveaway. AI writes like a LinkedIn post.

> Why? Because LLMs don’t just autocomplete. They generate. And in doing so, they challenge our identity, not just our workflows.

is what raised flags in my head. Rather than explain the difference between glorified autocompletion and generation, the post assumes there is a difference then uses florid prose to hammer in the point it didn't prove.

I've heard the paragraph "why? Because X. Which is not Y. And abcdefg" a hundred times. Deepseek uses it on me every time I ask a question.

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Here’s the thing though…if you read enough of it, you’re gonna start using it a lot more often. It’s not just AI slop, it’s fundamentally rewiring how we as a society think in real time! It’s the classic copycat AI mannerisms cried wolf Problem!
Alternately, the AI learned it from us, because we write that way.

Which came first...

Haha, got a laugh out of me assuming you were intentionally demonstrating by example :)