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I don't know if it is ai generated or at the opposite hand written a little bit fast but I find this article very hard to read despite the concepts in it being simple.


I couldn't parse "Getting that model has meant taking on something else."


The article is 1000% ai slop


Hard disagree there. I still don't know what the article is about if I'm being honest, but it doesn't bear the markings of being generated.


you need to tune your slopmeter, friend


AI, but I'm not sure about "slop". There is actual content in there, for all it's written by an LLM.


Yeah, i just call anything thats obviously been generated by AI "slop".


In my mind, slop is when the output is longer than the context provided by the user -- there's text, but there's no content.

Where LLMs can be really actually quite useful, is situations where you have a lot of context and want to distil it. That's what I think happened here: the author has a lot of information to convey, and the LLM-generated output is relatively information-dense.

Unfortunately there's no objective measure for information density of an arbitrary piece of text.


im not against using AI for writing, learning, etc... But if you publish/share writing that is full of LLM-isms, its slop. Full stop.




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