[alwa]

Intolerably ChatGPT-esque. Which is a shame, it seems like a nifty little DIY experiment.

I think what stands out to me is this cartoonishly punchy, faux-dramatic framing.

That, and specialist terms that seem to be thrown in there in an empty way, just to signal subject-matter expertise that’s not even expected of a DIYer’s experiment report:

> It’s a multi-decade, billion-dollar street fight over bytes and pixels, waged in the esoteric battlegrounds of DCT blocks and entropy coding

[delta_p_delta_x]

LLMs tend to produce ridiculous similes, idioms, euphemisms, and analogues that fall apart upon the slightest scrutiny, as though they are genuine English constructions. I despise it. No one in reality writes like that. Who the hell thinks 'bytes and pixels' are a battleground? if you want to talk about licensing problems, just say they are licensing problems, don't accept shitty similes from LLMs that humanise decidedly non-human constructs. More so if it's a technical discussion: just get to the bloody point.

I like using real idioms that have percolated through culture ('birds of a feather', 'white elephant', 'nip in the bud', etc), not stupid contrivations.

As someone who sweated through hours and hours of English essay-writing in school, LLM output that is misrepresented as genuine human writing is annoying and highly disrespectful of the reader's time and effort. The moment I saw the stupid, contrived headers and dozens of emojis, I closed the tab.

I refuse to waste my time reading the output of a matrix multiplication done in some server farm when I could do the latter myself.

[vanviegen]

Well, journalists often write like that. I presume that's where the LLMs learned. I always find that style annoying, but especially so in a technical post like this.

[Wowfunhappy]

I don't know which publications you're reading, but the ones I read do not write like this!

[wonnage]

Probably the only overlap between AI slop and actual journalistic writing is the obsession with em-dashes

[porridgeraisin]

And hallucinations.

[singhkays]

Point taken :) In retrospect that metaphor doesn't add any technical clarity. Will address in the rewrite

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45446589