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Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by khazhoux on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @12:26PM (#46798535)
It’s pretty sad that when people write well now, others dismiss it as AI.
Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by AnotherGoodName on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @12:35PM (#46798673)
It's also a pretty clear indication of AI undeniably passing the turing test in case that was in debate still.

No one can really tell if what's AI generated or not anymore. We're all going by vibes and undoubtedly getting it wrong.

Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by volkk on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:09PM (#46803031)
i don't think that's what this means. it just means to me a certain population of people are clueless and don't use these tools enough. what's _actually_ damaging/obnoxious are the ones arguing that this guy is a good writer and that this isn't AI. IMO, telling the difference can be as simple as looking for the common giveaways, or as complex as reading between the lines of the structure of sentences, the terrible adjectives, and the soullessness of it. If you have half a brain and are well read, you can _probably_ tailor these LLMs to write in a way that reads better. But, it requires people to read a lot of content and literature to understand what good writing is, and this contrived, overly convoluted soulless soup of words is certainly not an example of it.
Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by jannyfer on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @10:27PM (#46805422)
I agree with you and I definitely noticed the “it’s not just X, it’s Y” pattern.

But I find your comment funny because it ironically has the same “not that, this” pattern in a more verbose and less polished & less formulaic pattern.

Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by volkk on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:07AM (#46812100)
yep, that's my signature way of writing -- "unpolished & verbose" :D
Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by paganel on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @01:44PM (#46799784)
It's not written "well", it lacks that human touch, especially when writing about such a sensible subject, such as getting fired. It's too cold, actually too well written from a syntactic pov, which makes it inauthentic hence most probably AI.
Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by shimman on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @04:49PM (#46802052)
The author literally admits to using AI in the preceding comments...