We just say random words now?
Look at me: I can detect ai, and then I post about it in the comment sections. Here's a website. Hmmm I'm going to flag and down vote posts that don't agree with my opinions that I post on the hn comment section.
That's a virtue signal.
Edit:
What's sad is, dang is going to come comment on this instead of address the bigger convo that nearly every comment section is full of llm accusations and witch-hunts.
Not much we can do here if you think everything is about bragging.
This is, in the parlance of every day people, fucking insufferable.
Tone policing and chastising is worst than the article in question. I would rather read slop then some internet stranger patiently talking down to someone with an air of moral superiority.
I think it's funny that this is simply a battle you and those folks above are not going to win.
Meanwhile, those who continue to read unprejudiced but with applied critical thinking skills will at least remain in tandem with the red queen.
I think it has less to do with being more conservative and more to do with not losing one of the few remaining ways to see the personality of other tech people.
1) Let people know that you did that
2) Try to include a link to another page, which shows the prompt and your original version of the writing, even if it is in your native language
This will help people understand what you wanted to say.
Edit: The fact that you used AI to write your post, when your post is saying that you can’t trust AI to do a good job, is… super ironic lol :)
I do that for most of my docs because I ramble.
I prefer my rambling, but I think others like the tidied up LLM summary.
How does this document score - just wrote it today, used Gemini to sum it up: https://github.com/cuzzo/clear/blob/master/docs/retrospectiv...
On my worst, I rant worse than listening to an LLM.
When I make an effort, my personality comes through at no cost to the reader.
So far I haven't found a prompt that can impersonate me properly. I'm open to it.
Seeding it with a handful of my favorite articles gets me halfway, but the editing is still needed.
https://github.com/cuzzo/clear/commit/8c8a50f1d2c8fa2e8dca64...
https://www.pangram.com/history/dee030c0-0362-43d0-8fbd-bbab...