[joenot443]

This is slop too though, right?

> Pasting a massive AI-generated response into a chat or email where a human would write one sentence. It destroys the medium itself. Nobody writes essays in Slack. It's only possible because of AI copy-paste.

> It's like calling someone and asking "What time is the meeting?" and they read you a 10-page analysis of calendar management best practices. You asked a simple question. They lobbed a document.

It’s hard to take the site seriously if the author themself isn’t able to write

[foobarbecue]

I found the writing clear, concise, and human.

[joenot443]

It's certainly concise but I still remain unconvinced a human wrote it.

> It's a weapon disguised as helpfulness.

The source code is without a doubt AI (it's got a comment for the "<!-- Canonical URL -->"), so I guess one would have to assume they prepared the entire document beforehand, then fed it to Claude and instructed it to use that copy exactly.

...or they prompted "make me a site which tersely criticizes people who post AI slop on Slack, use the term slop grenade and style the site like nohello.net"

Eventually you just get a sense for these things.

[Biganon]

What makes you think this is AI slop?...

[joenot443]

> You asked a simple question. They lobbed a document.

> It's a weapon disguised as helpfulness.

These are particular sentences I find questionable. Would you write that way? I certainly wouldn't.

GPTZero is by no means perfect, but it agreed this was likely generated.

[HeartStrings]

We should instaban anyone who uses these patterns on ycombinator. If you talk like that for realsies, well too bad, try being more human and less linkedin next time

[gitaarik]

But AI is trained on human text. Human writers have already been flagged as AI – by humans who think they're AI, while they were not.

[HeartStrings]

AI has been trained on the common author. If you don’t want to sound like AI, find your unique voice and write less like everyone else.

[gitaarik]

They haven't only been trained on the common author. They have also been trained to prefer quality and to dismiss hallucinations. So if a human actually does some quality writing, people might think it's AI, like has already happened.

[Biganon]

> Would you write that way?

Well English is a foreign language for me, but yes I probably would, and then I'd get called out for being an AI haha

[nrclark]

Not the parent, but yes I would/do write that way for effect.

[HeartStrings]

Bro, do i got the bad news for you

[1shooner]

The heading " Why it's wrong" and the structure:

>Worse: it's a conversation killer. There's nothing to respond to. Your wall of text suppresses dialogue. They can't reply, can't push back, can't clarify. It's a weapon disguised as helpfulness.

This is slop. What it's saying is not even true, it's just punchy.

[HeartStrings]

Right, recent youtube solo lecture vlogs ripe with these clever punchy finishers. Annoying. I know people aren’t smart enough to actually be that witty ad hoc. Makes the whole thing feel fake af