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   Alice McFlurry :bc: (alice@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 17:34:02 JST Alice McFlurry :bc:

   AI seriously baffles me because I can't believe we're at a point where we read articles and need to ask ourselves if it was written by a person, a stupid person, or an algorithm.

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 17:34:19 JST Nazo

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     • Kierkegaanks regretfully

     @Kierkegaanks @Alice I don't know about 25 years ago, but before LLMs there were a lot of popup sites that were basically just junk thrown together by someone who didn't even really know English well and who didn't bother checking things or anything. Basically the human equivalent of a LLM... The only thing that changed in regards to those sites is they just use a LLM instead of a human now.

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     Kierkegaanks regretfully (kierkegaanks@beige.party)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 17:34:20 JST Kierkegaanks regretfully

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     @Alice tbf there were some web publications that had that effect 25 years ago

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 17:36:07 JST Rich Felker

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     • Nazo
     • Kierkegaanks regretfully

     @nazokiyoubinbou @Kierkegaanks @Alice The difference is that instead of "poor English" signaling bullshit, "immaculate English following stupid grade-school formulas and with extraneous fluff all over like a kid trying to meet a teacher's word count requirement" is now the signal for bullshit.