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Re:Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM typ... by doener on Saturday March 07, 2026 @09:01PM (#47293572)
You mean the image? The text does not sound like AI at all IMHO.
Re:Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM typ... by dkechag on Saturday March 07, 2026 @09:05PM (#47293598)
> No theory. No fluff. Just production.

ChatGPT tells me "no theory, no fluff" all the time :D

Re:Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM typ... by BeastMachine on Sunday March 08, 2026 @12:55AM (#47294885)
Where do you think it learned that phrasing from?
Re:Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM typ... by deaux on Sunday March 08, 2026 @01:16AM (#47295009)
Not from people using that same phrasing twice within a few sentences.

""" No warning. No traffic spike. Just… more money gone.

That’s when I finally looked at Hetzner.

I’ve seen too many backend systems fail for the same reasons — and too many teams learn the hard way.

So I turned those incidents into a practical field manual: real failures, root causes, fixes, and prevention systems.

No theory. No fluff. Just production. """

It's clearly slop, they immediately use effectively the same one again:

""" That last line isn’t a joke. There were charges I genuinely couldn’t explain. Elastic IPs we forgot to release. Snapshots from instances that no longer existed. CloudFront distributions someone set up for testing. """

No, human writers don't repeat this pattern every single paragraph. They use it at most across in a whole article.

Re:Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM typ... by BeastMachine on Sunday March 08, 2026 @01:40AM (#47295132)
Repetition is a very common tool in writing (ie 'I have a dream').

I'm just irked that it's being called out for AI slop because "I feel it in my bones!!"

There's a good chance it was written using AI -- should that matter? If the content is wrong/sucks, say that instead. If you're going to dismiss all AI assisted writing: good luck in the next decade.

Re:Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM typ... by jurgenburgen on Sunday March 08, 2026 @05:14AM (#47295788)
Reading the same (very annoying marketing blog) style of writing gets old fast.

It’s like suddenly all memes are just the same meme and nobody makes their own memes because “AI does it better”.

The style of writing is an intrinsic part of communication, if you can’t critique that then what is content? We’re not machines sharing pieces of data with each other.

Re:Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM typ... by johndough on Sunday March 08, 2026 @06:19AM (#47296090)
AI-written text is not necessarily incorrect, but if the author did not take their time to remove the AI slop, they probably did not put much effort into it elsewhere. In addition, the text is often over two times longer than without the slop, which disrespects the reader's time (even worse in this case, since a significant fraction of the article is an ad for the author's books).