[crazygringo]

The purpose isn't information, the purpose is drama.

Er, sorry. I meant: the purpose isn't just drama—it's a declaration of values, a commitment to the cause of a higher purpose, the first strike in a civilizational war of independence standing strong against commercialism, corporatism, and conformity. What starts with a single sentence in an LLM-rewritten blog post ends with changing the world.

See? And I didn't even need an LLM to write that. My own brain can produce slop with an em dash just as well. :)

[voxelghost]

This is actually the scariest part. Because lately even authors and creators who are not using LLM are starting to pick up some of these ways of expressing themselves.

[crazygringo]

Oh, I didn't learn it from LLM's, believe me.

That style of writing has been around forever. LLM's learned it from us. I'd basically call it "American sales pitch". It's a little bit product landing page, a little bit political opinion column, a little bit self-help book or motivational blogger.

It's always been a style of writing that tries to maximize engagement. The issue is that now we see it creeping into areas that never used to use it. It's not how developers tend to write. But now developers toss their original draft into an LLM asking it to "punch it up for engagement" -- or the LLM has just been trained to assume that's what someone wants by default -- and so now it stands out like a sore thumb.

And obviously, it's an appeal to emotion. Whereas developers tend to be looking for just the cold hard facts. So it's doubly off-putting.

[j16sdiz]

I wonder where did LLM learnt that...