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		JKCalhoun 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The open web isn't dying, we're killing it "this piece reeks of LLM-writing…" How so? It's getting to feel like some weird kind of AI McCarthyism where everything is suspected of being manufactured. Since I have no idea whether something is LLM-generated or not, I've instead decided to argue things on their merits alone.

Ferret7446 17 days ago [–]

Likely because it used common writing techniques, which people have now convinced themselves are a surefire way to identify AI content, because the AI, having been trained on writing that uses common writing techniques, also uses those techniques.

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