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Re:AI-generated replies really are a scourge these days by theshrike79 on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @05:10AM (#47135178)
"ai;dr" is becoming the standard way of exiting (offshoot of tl;dr)

Kinda similar to the ye olde newsgroup custom of replying "plonk" when you add someone to your killfile.

Re:AI-generated replies really are a scourge these days by Aeglaecia on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @05:23AM (#47135281)
thats definitely the way i feel using the net now. but expressing it that way can be kinda rude, coz some people naturally write like the sam altman machine. i tried pointing out repeated use of ai grammar techniques, that seemed to me to be the middle ground between wasting my time and being a dick to others. but pointing out ai grammar techniques got me flagged here. anyone got a better middle ground?
Re:AI-generated replies really are a scourge these days by nottorp on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @05:56AM (#47135531)
> naturally write like the sam altman machine

Nah, that's not natural even if a living person does it without the help of a LLM.

newcorpospeak, perhaps. Not natural.

Re:AI-generated replies really are a scourge these days by Aeglaecia on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @07:00AM (#47136052)
whatever way you want to express it, a subset of people have been linguistically roboticized and talk like robots now. regardless as to how natural it is, these people are definitely talking like that, and it is difficult to verbally distinguish them from the robots they emulate
Re:AI-generated replies really are a scourge these days by nottorp on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @07:32AM (#47136302)
> from the robots they emulate

That's the part i disagree with. I'm thinking they are the ones who trained the LLMs.

Re:AI-generated replies really are a scourge these days by Aeglaecia on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @08:03AM (#47136608)
look man youre right semantically in that llms are trained for maximum engagement its just not the conversation im looking for right now , all the best