“Ever since I learned about confirmation bias I’ve been seeing it everywhere!”

The raging, “I don’t like this, so it must have been written by an LLM!” comments on HN have gotten so tiresome that I find when I see them I just down-vote them and move to the next thread. (Most of the time. You’re witches comment captured my attention and prompted a response. Well done — the comment must have been written by a human.)

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I just went through some of the posts and you are right. It's very suspicious, but I would say it's right at the edge of being plausibly written by a human. If it's LLM, then it's the first one I'm aware of that got me this good. I am usually the first one to point out that something reeks of LLM writing here (which I'm kinda ashamed of, considering how much I've been doing this).

Tbh the whole smolweb concept by this person seemed kinda weird right when I discovered it was a thing. It seems to not really be a thing but the person is really trying to convince you that it is

Honestly, despite the regular "not X, just Y" constructs, I actually think it was written by a human. Or at the very least mostly written by a human.

Something about how the argument and rationale builds up does not scream LLM to me.