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Don't paste the AI. (dontpastetheai.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by inari@piefed.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] graynk@discuss.tchncs.de 154 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Ironically this page seems to be entirely made of slop, the whole text reeks of claudisms, as opposed to https://noslopgrenade.com/

[–] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 57 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What really seals it is the 'angry' version, which is just the same message again but with different formatting. No human would label that as "the angry version" without the inclusion of at least one "fucking".

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It says “but for fucks sake” in the angry version though.

[–] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh yeah, you're right, there is a swear in it! I do still feel it's extremely tame for being an "angry" voice though. For comparison, this is what a human sounds like when ranting about a topic they care about.

[–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 1 points 2 weeks ago

I honestly think the styling is the main reason it feels AI.

because the sentences are too short, they're a style I sort of writes at times. Just sort of. LLMs tends to output longer sentences, rather than the two-three words. Then dot. That's a rare one for LLM

However it's not an anti AI site, so they might have vibe styled it and probably had a LLM help with some of the wording. However I think a human did vet and rewrite parts of it.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

You can be angry and still be polite. On even insult othe without looking like you do. But subtilty isn't Lemmy forte.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 weeks ago

I was just coming to comment this. Slop telling us not to paste slop. How nice.

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, to be fair, if I have to extend something to meet a word minimum I naturally ramble like a bot just filling it up with pointless junk.

Why I did so much better in "business writing" at uni, they rarely gave me minimums, only the need for usable content that met the criteria for a proper answer.

[–] graynk@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, but "Here's what you just did" and the "What you sent instead says:" and especially the "The whole thing. Yes, even the bullets. Especially the bullets."

[–] kurwa@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You know, this person might just be naturally talking like an AI, especially if they're using it all the time. They did say they weren't anti AI after all.

[–] vogi@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Em dashes being associated with AI is a disservice to them; in many cases they're a far more suitable use of punctuation in interrupting a sentence than parentheses.

In this instance, however, the em dashes between the first and second parts of sentences would be better replaced with semicolons than commas, in my opinion.

[–] vogi@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yea, if it would have been only the em dashes, I would not have shared it but it was also committed by Claude which heightens the possibility of the text also being generated I think.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They're definitely more likely to be used by AI than by the average person, but I think that's in large part because people aren't generally taught to use them, along with their absence from keyboards.

Since keyboards have two minus sign keys, I have a script running on my computer to automatically replace one of their inputs with an em dash.

[–] pidgey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I use dashes constantly (way more than I should I’m sure) and always have - and I am in my mid 50s. Low key worried that folks will think I’m using AI so now I’m self conscious about them.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

You used a hyphen instead of an emdash so no one is going to think you're AI.

[–] dustletter@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

Noslopgrenade also reads like a slop grenade