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Re:The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less ... by meowface on Friday September 11, 2026 @11:03AM (#49659691)
You actually didn't. The construct is slightly different.

I use LLMs all day every day. I think they're great. I just don't like humans who put their name to what an LLM did.

Re:The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less ... by teiferer on Friday September 11, 2026 @11:38AM (#49660248)
> You actually didn't. The construct is slightly different.

Well I know that I did, so you are wrong with that claim, which sheds a strong (negative) light on other statements of fact that you posted in this discussion.

You may disagree with me, or I may even have gotten something wrong, but just claiming I didn't read the article ... sorry man, I thought HN had higher standards than that.

Re:The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less ... by wrsh07 on Friday September 11, 2026 @11:57AM (#49660561)
I think they were referring to your fake llmism
Re:The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less ... by teiferer on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:17PM (#49661897)
Ah thanks. Fair.
Re:The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less ... by no_multitudes on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:24PM (#49661050)
They were pointing out that "It's not a Waymo-bashing article, it cautions against the long term effects on research." does not sound like LLM-generated text.

It would sound kind of LLM-y if you had said "It's not an anti-Waymo article. It's an article about how assistive technology is quietly degrading research."

(Of course, the correct approach to detecting AI is not counting LLM-isms, but feeding long-form text through a classifier model and picking up statistical correlations that are more in-distribution with LLM text than human text.)

Re:The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less ... by meowface on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:35PM (#49666322)
Correct. I was already pretty sure, but I wouldn't have written that post without checking Pangram first.
Re:The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less ... by meowface on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:33PM (#49666304)
"It's not a Waymo-bashing article, it cautions against the long term effects on research." is not an LLMism. It superficially resembles one, but that's it.

(Nor is what I just wrote, there.)