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0 pointssokka_h2otribe5mo ago0 comments

Op is saying it sounds like it was written like an LLM

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yanslookup5mo ago· 5 in thread

ok... it's an AI company, It'd be odd if it weren't written by AI, no?

I'm all for dogfooding but if you work for a bicycle company it shouldn't mean you can't drive to work. The right tool for the right job.

rbtprograms5mo ago

Would that be odd? AI companies are still staffed by people, and large announcements like acquihires certainly feel like they could use a slightly more human touch if they truly mean a lot to the company.

conception5mo ago

It is odd that they didn’t care or have the wherewithal to make it not sound obviously like an LLM wrote it.

polynomial5mo ago

Still getting paid either way.

Aerolfos5mo ago

Eh if anyone is all in on AI and it replacing human writing it would be an AI company

But then that means if you're a PR or communications person working at this startup (or at Meta?) your job is not secure and that your days there are probably numbered, which I'm sure is great for morale...

azangru5mo ago· 4 in thread

I don't get it either.

Since LLMs emulate human writing, what is it about that sentence that gives away that it was written by an LLM rather than human? Haven't we seen plenty of hollow-sounding self-aggrandizing marketing copies like this one pre-LLMs? What is it that is wrong with this sentence?

Please don't say it's an em-dash...

nikoomilana5mo ago

Give this a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...

I linked "Negative Parallelisms" because it's relevant here, but the article in general covers a lot of AI writing styles

mcintyre19945mo ago

It’s a sentence structure that LLMs over-use: “this isn’t just X, it’s Y”.

shimman5mo ago

It sounds like corporate meaningless drivel. Everyone is dogging on it because it's no different than when startups of yore would say "making the world a better place." As if the meaningless platitude was some incantation you had to whisper or the funding wouldn't close.

lobito255mo ago

it's always the em-dash

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