The article was written by AI

How do you know?

There's a lazy habit from some folks to say something they either disagree with or don't understand was "written by AI" without backing up that statement.

It's becoming the modern adult equivalent of the old kids saying:

" I know you are but what AmI ? "

I don’t think it’s AI. AI would at least keep the article body consistent with the title even if it had to bend over backward and hallucinate new facts.

That would maybe be true, if AI wrote both the title and the body of the article.

In human practice, some hack usually writes the body, but the editor decides the title. And that can happen after the article is written or before.

I don't think they would change that workflow, even if the writer, or both writer and editor, were replaced with a AI.

So yours was a good observation, but it's rather weak evidence.

>>There's a lazy habit from some folks to say something they either disagree with or don't understand was "written by AI" without backing up that statement.

Thank you for saying this, I keep arguing the same. "This is llm" has become lazy for "I dont like this so I will pretend its llm"

That's because most of the LLM output is associated with low effort spam, and they are not wrong. You keep fighting for LLM rights, lol.

^ this comment was written by an llm.

See the problem?

People usually make the determination by reading at least part of the text and then find multiple smoking guns / llm-isms

The comment you responded to did not have those.

Fwiw, the article we're commenting on was likely not LLM written. The sentence structure is too convoluted, no LLM would've generated it like that - unless very carefully prompted ... But at that point it's no longer pure AI slop (imo).

I'll start downvoting all posts that are about criticizing something solely because it was "made by AI". Humans using AI can make great things.

If the article is bad, just say "this is a bad article without coherent arguments" or something like that.

"You're absolutely right to question that.

Let me restate that correctly. Just facts. No fluff."