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Just using LLMs enough I've developed a sense for the flavor of writing. Surely it could be hidden with enough work, but most of the time it's pretty blatant.

They do acknowledge that in the notes, referencing one other study (n=3) with one healthy aged author that did not exhibit these signs.

>Relatedly, as this is a single-case study, without a control author, it remains possible that the decline in lexical diversity reflects natural ageing. But note that previous research [15] has found that healthy authors can maintain stable linguistic diversity into their late 80s, suggesting that the decline observed in Pratchett’s TTR is indicative of pathology rather than typical ageing.

IMO still all very inconclusive but an interesting avenue to explore.

Quoting TFA: "It’s worth noting that none of this was really legal; the law technically stated that TikTok shouldn’t have been allowed to exist for much of this year. Everyone just looked the other way while Trump and his cronies repeatedly ignored deadlines and hammered away at the transfer."

Google TV showing ads on the home screen convinced me to buy an Apple TV. Had to go back to a set-top box - to use the same apps I have built into the TV - just because Apple won't spam me with this shit.

I have them and like them. I don't wear them constantly, but on days when I'm doing something interesting, they help me document much more than I otherwise would.

I made a conscious effort to switch from hyphens to em dashes in the 2010's and now find myself undoing that effort because of these things, so I try not to instantly assume "AI". But look long enough and you do notice a "sameness": excellent grammar, fondness for bulleted lists, telltale phrases like "That's not ___, it's ___."

And a certain vacuousness. TFA is over 16000 words and I'm not really sure there's a single core point.

I'm a big fan of the MWCBTY keyboard format, it's especially efficient when you have to type a lot of G's.

Snark aside, I think it's laziness and the shotgun approach. The author writes some rough thoughts down, has an AI "polish" them and generate an image, and posts an article. Shares it on HN. Do it enough, especially on a slow Sunday morning, and you'll get some engagement despite the detractors like us in the comments. Eventually you've got some readers.

The whole thing feels AI-padded.

It's not black and white. My SO doomscrolls facebook on her laptop for hours daily. Certain parts of creative workflows are better on phones (or other devices) than laptops - the article acknowledges this in the "hybrid workflows" section.

IMO the important thing to be mindful of is your creation-vs-consumption balance. We tend to overindex on consumption.

I had one of the second-gen units, it was programmable locally, and you could locally enable the learning mode (which was not good)

I agree that libraries are a thing, all problems in CS can be solved with a layer of indirection, etc. I also have no issue with AI-gen projects if they're good.

In this case, they posted a README full of nonsense diagrams, didn't fix the broken characters in their UX, and breezed over the complexity of the dependencies (ESP-CSI is very cool but requires specific hardware, with two ESP devices and external antennas). Feels sloppy.

The interface and code smacks of Claude. It's basically someone's AI pet project wrapping legitimate third-party tools.