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by chamomeal 17 days ago
> Websites are broken by default. They used to be functional, fast, and accessible but ugly. Now they're slop, agentic, and on fire — but they get attention, and attention is the only metric left. Nobody's reading and you know it.

I’m upset if an LLM actually wrote this because this is p sick

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It's AI. Telling a model to shitpost really isn't very interesting since that's pretty much half of everything on the internets and there was practically infinite training material.
It reads a lot like an LLM... Especially this sentence:

> Now they're slop, agentic, and on fire — but they get attention, and attention is the only metric left.

Welcome to the future, where we have LLMs writing slop rants about LLMs writing slop!

> It reads a lot like an LLM

And that my friend was the joke. Achievement unlocked, congrats!

Did you actually catch my drift though?

Something that reads like an LLM wrote it is different from an LLM having written it to begin with. Something written by an LLM can be something that doesn't have the hallmarks of LLM all over it.

I was just saying that the original quote doesn't strike me as something that's an annoyingly good piece of LLM writing.

There's a lot of experimentation happening on how to get LLMs to write well, starting with half of what's been posted on Gwern's blog as of late.