[philipp-gayret]

I am seriously tired of every other paragraph I read ending in an It isn't just X, it's Y. I'm sure there is something insightful in between this slop but to the author: Please write using your own voice, if I wanted ChatGPT's take on it I would ask.

[tyleo]

Agreed. I don't even necessarily have anything against AI edited text but there's a way to sharpen your own writing and there's a way to let its voice dominate. There's a lot of idioms it tends to fall back on (em dashes being the most well known). I'm surprised that folks don't notice these and aggressively reassert their voice.

I use LLMs in my own writing because they have benefits for conciseness but it tends to be a fairly laborious process of putting my text in the LLM for shortening and grammar, getting something more generic out, putting my soul back in, putting it back in the LLM for shortening, etc. I tend to do this at the paragraph level rather than the page level.

[jofzar]

I miss people having their own voice. I can't keep reading slop.

I wish hackernews banned slop, or atleast required disclosure.

[nimonian]

> These aren't edge cases. This is...

me stopping reading

[srean]

I think HN might need a downvote button for stories if this continues.

[jagged-chisel]

We have "flag." Flag 'em.

[robertlagrant]

Exactly. It's not just nauseating—it's sickening.

[dpoloncsak]

fwiw, I'm convinced we will all slowly lose our voice as everything around us becomes ai-assisted. People are already picking up the 'AI-isms' into their everyday speech.

I've started a blog just to scream into the void, but every word is my own, and I encourage others to do the same. AI helped set it up, the UI is pretty slop, but that's not the point. I'm hoping that by writing more I can strengthen my connection to my voice as I continue to use these tools for other uses. I'm sure writing in a journal or writing letters to friends would have similar effects too, right?

We all understand "muscles need to be regularly used to be maintained", I think we need to take that same approach to our brain, especially in the day of AI