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by npunt 35 days ago
It’s very obviously AI, several tells:

‘isn’t just / it’s also’ AI-ism should at least turn your AI radar on, then you get this weirdly formal structure that sounds like a trying-to-be-relatable press release:

“This shift eliminates A, thereby enhancing B, improving C, and facilitating D. The benefits? Better U, smoother V (hello, W), improved X, and potentially Y—freeing up Z.”

Question to self interjection, chipper ‘(hello, W)’ aside, topped off with a zero spaced emdash. 10000% AI, stylistically this isn’t text tuned to an HN audience, comments never sound like this. What’s funny is the paragraph it’s quoting has nearly the same style, the LLM probably picked that up.

Not trying to call anyone out, just pointing out the stylistic tells we should all be aware of.

1 comments

I've re-read the comment again and I'm convinced it's not ai. It uses a pattern that ai adopted but it seems like an actual genuine comment. This is based on my spidey senses so it's not something I'm going to debate logically but it seems quite a few people agree with me. And I've seen lots of annoying ai-written stuff, and of course use Claude and Chatgpt regularly