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by lovich 70 days ago
I got about halfway through this article until I started wondering why it was so long and going in loops. Then I ctrl+f'd.

` just `, (spaces on either side matter), 11 instances, most seem to be `isnt just`, `wasnt just`, `doesnt just` type pattern

`-`, an en dash instead of an emdash but 59 instances.

This article is either from a clanker and I am pissed off at wasting my time reading it, or from someone who writes like a clanker, and I am pissed off at wasting my time reading it.

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Maybe it's just the frequency illusion, but "X. Not Y." in particular is a pattern I strongly associate with LLM writing.

> That’s confabulation. Not a metaphor. The same phenomenon.

> Published. Replicated. Not fringe.

> Not to validate it. Not to refute it. Not to engage with its content at all.

There's a Wikipedia article with a nice list of LLM writing patterns:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

This is what I always read before I prepare a critique about why this is an LLM writing.

It's the new age "Repost"

It’s absolutely a signal. As is the constant repeating of points. It’s AI slop for sure

Which is a shame coz the premise is interesting.