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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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It might have already been posted here, but this Wikipedia guide to recognizing AI slop is such a good resource.
A fairly good and nuanced guide. No magic silver-bullet shibboleths for us.
I particularly like this section:
I think it's an excellent summary, and connects with the "Barnum-effect" of LLMs, making them appear smarter than they are. And that it's not the presence of certain words, but the absence of certain others (and well content) that is a good indicator of LLM extruded garbage.
Also, you can one-step explain from this guide why people with working bullshit detectors tend to immediately clock LLM output, vs the executive class whose whole existence is predicated on not discerning bullshit being its greatest fans. A lot of us have seen A Guy In A Suit do this, intentionally avoid specifics to make himself/his company/his product look superficially better. Hell, the AI hype itself (and the blockchain and metaverse nonsense before it) relies heavily on this - never say specifics, always say "revolutionary technology, future, here to stay", quickly run away if anyone tries to ask a question.
My feeling has gotten that I prefer the business executive empty vs the LLM empty, at least the first one usually expresses personality. It's never entirely empty.