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0 pointsfuryofantares23d ago0 comments

The aesethetic tells are excessive headings for small sections, many of which are largely just a list. There's the numbered list but then the sections that are a sequence of "Bold Text: Single sentence." Plenty of em-dash too, but I don't really look at that much.

It's basically a long list of factual statements all with the same weight, very little opinion expressed about the experience. I don't actually mind an infodump from a human, you usually can still work out some of what they care about, and you also can be reasonably sure they didn't fill in the gaps. Most likely I would have enjoyed whatever the author fed into the LLM.

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TheNewsIsHere23d ago

Speaking as someone who has used em-dashes and semicolons for years, it’s a shame what the AI companies have done with punctuation.

soupfordummies22d ago

Yeah we’re in a weird place where the prompt would still have to contain most of the content and then be “prettied up”. Since generic AI “prettied up” style is so same-y and dry it would be refreshing to just see whatever the original was, warts and all. Just blog-post the prompt!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointsfuryofantares23d ago0 comments

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TheNewsIsHere23d ago

Speaking as someone who has used em-dashes and semicolons for years, it’s a shame what the AI companies have done with punctuation.

soupfordummies22d ago

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse