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Re:Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents by throwaway__ai on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:52PM (#46304625)
I get sad when I read comments like these, because I feel like HN is the only forum left where real discussion between real people providing real thoughts are happening. I think that is changing unfortunately. The em-dashes and the strange ticks immediate triggers my anti-bodies and devalues it, whether that is appropriate or not.
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Re:Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents by artembugara on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:52PM (#46304636)
Do you mean it’s written by AI?

Or just my writing style?

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Re:Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents by throwaway__ai on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:54PM (#46304659)
Not the writing style, but the fact that the em-dashes and strange ticks make it indistinguishable from something AI-generated. At least take the time to replace them with something you can produce easily on a physical keyboard.

Edit:

Well, actually - this kind of writing style does feel quite AI-ish:

> It really makes sense, and the best part — customers love it

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Re:Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents by throwaway__ai on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:58PM (#46304695)
It might be a Windows vs. MacOS/Linux thing, but regardless - it's becoming a similar kind of pattern that I'm subconsciously learning to ignore/filter out, similar to banner blindness and ads/editorials.
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Re:Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents by eiriklv on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @03:05PM (#46304797)
Why does it produce different ticks and em-dashes?
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Re:Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents by artembugara on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @03:02PM (#46304766)
Chrome on iPhone
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Re:Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents by HelloMcFly on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @10:14PM (#46308544)
The em dashes didn't strike me as LLM because they had spaces on either side, something I don't typically see in LLM outputs as much. But the quote you highlighted is pretty much dead-on for LLM "speak" I must admit. In the end though, I think this is human written.
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