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by uvaursi 224 days ago
Whereas before the air of sophistication conned you into thinking the authors knew what they were talking about, it took AI slop for you to see how bad things really are.

Queue the “always have been” meme.

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No, things are worse now. Our standards have lowered. There was no way to quickly produce low-effort vacuous text without writing it or copying it from another source before now.

Of course people could feign intelligence before, but it's much easier now and our standards are lower. This is a double whammy.