I see it all the time in basically every form of text communication. What makes you think you are not seeing it?

I found that many people don't have a radar for this. They may know about delve, emdashes, tapestry, multifaceted or "not just X but y" and if these are not there they don't see it.

They probably don't care enough to notice the tells. I think that it's generally those ambivalent, skeptical or opposed to AI who notice, while those who wholeheartedly support AI see no reason to differentiate between it and humans and so do not even try to.

I don't think it's that simple. I'm not blanket opposed to it. I'm more along the lines of the author of the article. Use it for what it's good at, sift through unstructured info, convert information from one format to another, implement things that are planned out well with iterations and feedback, etc, and generally mapping out the capabilities.

I think those who are very opposed to AI often don't know much about the real limitations since they don't use it, and their complaints are often a year or more out of date.

I think the ideal demographic for spotting these are people who use the frontier LLMs a lot and they also have worked with text in detail, such as copywriters, people who have learned foreign languages and grammar etc., have edited articles for language and generally have a more "wordsmith" look at language and are sensitive to flow and rhythm of language on a more technical level.

Even a small % of incorrectness quickly produces compounding effects, if you view LLMs as an information source. True or false statements are made with equal confidence, because the LLM can’t distinguish true from false.

That’s the same as in normal journalism so I’m not sure why you pick LLMs as particularly bad

To be fair, if all you need is to add elements to a child you don’t need React.

Maybe nobody needs React, I’m not a fan. But a trivial stateless injection of DOM content is no argument at all.

They said each time they want something to be easier, not each time they do something. And they didn’t mention it has to be one-shot. You might have read too quickly and you’ve responded to something that didn’t actually exist.

Are you an LLM yourself?

It’s good to keep your skepticism but at some point you have to be able to recognize normal human usage of these conventions.

And as we all read more AI content and talk to chatbots, that will influence how we do our own writing as well, humans will start to sound more like LLMs.

yeah! I love the em-dash — they really took it away from us :(

It’s like that but if the blindfolded free throw shooter was also the scorekeeper and the referee & told you with complete confidence that the ball went in, when you looked away for a second.