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Re:Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data s... by robotresearcher on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:15PM (#49887271)
> This article was drafted with AI from my outline

Maybe just post your human outline and the data, where the data processing and viz is AI assisted if you like.

The synthetic prose is not a value-add over your outline. It takes time to read, and reduces the bit-rate over your intentions.

Re:Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data s... by paweladamczuk on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:58PM (#49888028)
I think the same. I appreciate the effort put into research, but the AI tone is unbearable to me.
Re:Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data s... by tomrod on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:26PM (#49887335)
AI loopity. Where AI is used to generate unnecessary prose that others summarize via AI. This exacerbates lossy communication.
Re:Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data s... by elcritch on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:52PM (#49887499)
Inverse compression.
Re:Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data s... by DaiPlusPlus on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:50PM (#49887956)
If compression is intelligence, then is this kind of LLM use a sign of dumbness?
Re:Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data s... by sterlind on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:15AM (#49888188)
expansion?
Re:Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data s... by isoprophlex on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:08AM (#49888522)
Expansive confabulation
Re:Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data s... by kridsdale1 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:50PM (#49896326)
Filling with hot air
Re:Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data s... by IshKebab on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:22AM (#49888984)
Yeah I immediately left at that point. I appreciate that he was up front about it though, so at least I could leave immediately.

OP there isn't a word length requirement on blog posts. You put all the information you learned into your instructions for the LLM. Just post that.

Re:Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data s... by ricardobeat on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:37AM (#49892165)
This kind of dense sentence is extremely tiring to read:

    > I wanted to know whether the knife subreddits I read, and scrape for New 
    Knife Day, show any sign of that. Not a hunch about one suspicious comment, 
    but something I could count and someone else could recount.
Everyone should adopt this rule: if the author didn't take the time to write it, you shouldn't take the time to read it.
Re:Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data s... by kridsdale1 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:49PM (#49896321)
I spotted Claude here:

> The practical check is the one the data endorses

Re:Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data s... by spinachsalad on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:23AM (#49893839)
You're absolutely right! ;)

The language is so obfuscated that the crude draft would really be better than this. I've just realized that one of the telltale signs of LLMs is: inventing a new terminology like here - tail accounts, never giving a direct definition what it really is, and then going with it, like it's obvious.

Re:Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data s... by solaire_oa on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @06:37PM (#49901747)
Does the Internet have a trust problem? What the slop suggests...

This is the 7th submission on HN in the last week which has entered my RSS feed, which has AI-tell slop right in the title. It's really discouraging.

Re:Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data s... by rglynn on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:24PM (#49913871)
> The corpus, and the refresh that changed the answer

I audibly went "ah!", as if in pain from a muscle twinge and immediately came back to the thread to find this comment.

Ain't no way I'm gonna spend my free time reading Claude-isms.