Re:We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it...
by rdsubhas on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @06:55PM
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Huh? This is the least LLM writing style I've encountered. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
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Re:We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it...
by nathan82 on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @07:58PM
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It's not an extraordinary claim, it's a mundane and plausible one. This is exactly what you get when you ask an LLM to write in a "engaging conversational" style, and skip any editing after the fact. You could never prove it but there are a LOT of tells.
"The key insight" - llms love key insights! "self-contained corruption-free" - they also love over-hypenating, as much as they love em-dashing. Both abundant here. "X like it's 2005" and also "Y like it's 2009" - what a cool casual turn of phrase, so natural! The architecture diagram is definitely unedited AI, Claude always messes up the border alignment on ascii boxes
I wouldn't mind except the end result is imprecise and sloppy, as pointed out by the GP comment. And the tone is so predictable/boring at this point, I'd MUCH rather read poorly written human output with some actual personality.
Re:We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it...
by Tenobrus on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @08:25PM
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ai detectors are never totally accurate but this one is quite good and it suggests something like 80% of this article is llm generated. honestly idk how you didn't get that just by reading it tho, maybe you haven't been exposed to much modern llm-generated content?
https://www.pangram.com/history/5cec2f02-6fd6-4c97-8e71-d509...