I didn't notice any signs of AI writing until seeing this comment and re-reading (though I did notice it on the second pass).
That said, I think this article demonstrates that focusing on whether or not an article used AI might be focusing on the wrong “problem.” I appreciate being sensitive to the "smell" (the number of low-effort, AI posts flying around these days has made me sensitive too), but personally, I found this article both (1) easy to read and (2) insightful. I think the number of AI-written content lacking (2) is the problem.
Agreed -- coding agents / LLMs are definitely imperfect, but it's always hard to contextualize "it failed at X" without knowing exactly what X was (or how the agent was instructed to perform X)
Good point – we’ve definitely noticed a lot more Cloudflare representation these days. That said, there seems to be tiers in terms of the protection they offer (and thus the protection used by the websites in this long-tail), where lower tiers (so far) haven’t required proxies.
Curious if you’ve noticed any particularly well defined, obscure websites? Would love to take a look if so.
Haha I appreciate that! And that’s exactly right. Our goal is to make it so that you don’t have to ask the question “but is it worth the time and effort…” when you want to use or explore a new dataset.
That said, I think this article demonstrates that focusing on whether or not an article used AI might be focusing on the wrong “problem.” I appreciate being sensitive to the "smell" (the number of low-effort, AI posts flying around these days has made me sensitive too), but personally, I found this article both (1) easy to read and (2) insightful. I think the number of AI-written content lacking (2) is the problem.
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