2026-09-20 17:28 UTC
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@lunarloony@dosgame.club 2026-09-20 19:19
@veronica@explains.social Everything is dramatic. I've read my fair share of Copilot-written blog posts, and they all have a particular cadence about them, similar to that of a true crime podcast. All written like it's leading up to some big reveal, no matter how mundane the topic
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@floatybirb@mastodon.social 2026-09-20 19:53
@veronica@explains.social For non fiction, a lot of slop tends to be padded with platitudes and superlatives, with little logic to the details added. E.g. an LLM written article about an iron-age archaeological site might say that the site "demonstrates a high level of craftsmanship and city planning" or use a whole paragraph to tell us that its fortifications suggest (vague) enemies were a threat or the site had a (vague) centralized authority.
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@byrnensorg@mastodon.ie 2026-09-20 19:54
@veronica@explains.social Overuse of the Dash- in the place of bullets. That is one tell I see, on rare occasions I see a sample.
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@claus@hachyderm.io 2026-09-20 19:56
@veronica@explains.social LLM-generated text tends to have certain stylistic tells. The most salient ones to me tend to be "It's not A, it's B" structures, and high incidence of subsections that answer a question presented in the subsection title. For example, instead of seeing a section titled "X is important" the section might be titled "Why this matters", followed by a paragraph saying that X is, in fact, important.