This is not written by AI, why do you care
Posted by Professional_Monk534@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 27 comments
I can’t understand why people just spam AI-written posts with their detective instincts that posts are written by AI.
I feel that AI-written posts (that just refine my post, not take my idea and turn it into a post) are much better than my English.
How does that hurt you? And who set a rule that it is a bad thing or not? I agree that some posts are “AI slop,” but that is not a rule as well; it depends on the content quality, not on the tone.
I understand you might still disagree, but you don’t have the right to judge; you can skip if you personally don’t like the post because of that reason because that is your ‘taste’.
ExperiencedDevs-ModTeam@reddit
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Pokeputin@reddit
People judge it because they don't want to see this kind of posts, and judging it provides an incentive for OP to not make that kind of post again.
elephant_ua@reddit
You can use grammarly if you are concerned with grammatical correctness.
Ai slop usually means made up stories with very specific style of linkedin garbage which I want to see as rarely as possible
DeltaJesus@reddit
Grammarly has started using LLMs btw, it can end up writing in a very similar style. A few people have been incorrectly bot bouncered because of it.
elephant_ua@reddit
Grammarly suggests changes to words, not structures your text
DeltaJesus@reddit
It will do a lot more than just change a couple words if you want it to.
Professional_Monk534@reddit (OP)
I agree, as I mentioned refining post that I wrote with my own hands with ai with a “write better english” prompt isn’t gonna generate that AI slop I guess
CompassionateSkeptic@reddit
I encourage you to also ask yourself how it hurts you. Other people’s low effort posts, content milling, and mindless self promotion make a potentially legitimate use case you’d have less tenable in addition to the damage they’re doing the community.
There are certainly people who are using their hatred for AI to do some stupid fucking gatekeepy bullshit they’d already be inclined to do. But there are also real harms.
If it’s not plain to see within the community then build from an analogy from a more salient use-case and see where the analogy holds. Look to YouTube ads. The past decade has seen the proliferation of low effort ads that use obnoxious techniques that use blatant tools of fraudsters to maximize engagement relative to production dollars spent. It is functionally an optimization for ad spend that doesn’t try to spend on ads better and it fucking works. It was already horrific and the problem has somehow gotten worse with AI. If generated content is used as part of a monetized engagement strategy AND the optimized pipeline is orthogonal to the things the community ought to value (the only values-based part that’s debatable, the rest is facts and interpretation), you have a race to the bottom. It deserves scorn and resentment.
And I say that as someone who is using AI assistance a fuck ton. If you’re sincere about that you want to able to use AI for, I’d encourage you to figure out how to push back against the shit that’s actually interfering—bad use of AI. If we nip that shit in the bud, the only people complaining about posts like yours will be people no one needs to pay attention to.
pepejovi@reddit
Becuase 90% of AI-written posts are specifically not written first by a human.
Besides that, it's a technology that is already negative to most people, being used by the worst people on the planet to make sure the rest of us have nothing left. These people would be happy to see all white collar jobs replaced by AI,do not care what happens to the human beings making their living doing those jobs, and our politicians seem to be perfectly happy going along with that.
Of course I'll tell some random Redditor to fuck off if I'm presented with an obviously AI-written, LinkedIn -coded word vomit of a post.
Also, because of AI, more people are now posting "their thoughts" on everything. This leads to exhaustion, because we get a new 2000-word essay on $topic every two seconds.
ALSO, the reason writing is considered an art - IMO, art is in the eye of the beholder, come up with your own definition don't DM me - is because you leak through in the writing. In the tempo of the words, the structure of the sentences, the words you choose to use. Sorry about all the commas, I just think they're neat.
It blocks me from seeing some actually thought-out arguments from good writers.
I did. I set what I think is a bad thing or not. New information can change my opinion, and right now these AI posts are unequivocally a bad thing. The fact that the community seems to be swollen fat with people who agree with this view, should cause you to think deeply about why that might be.
Wrong. Your entire post is written in a more engaging way than anything I've seen written by an LLM.
Of course I have the right to judge. I'm free to do as I wish. I can skip posts written with AI, and I personally do - after a downvote - but some people don't feel downvoting is enough. This is a forum mainly moderated by the community mainly via votes, but also via comments pointing out inaccuracies in what you post.
You have the right to post your AI-slop, or your self-written but AI-formatted text, and in return the rest of us have the right to engage with the functionalities reddit offers us. If you don't want any input on your post don't post it on the internet.
CodelinesNL@reddit
I'm here to interact with actual people, not with an AI model. If I wanted an AI's opinion on something, I'd ask it directly, instead of having to go through a middle man.
TastyToad@reddit
My understanding is this sub was intended as a place for specialists to discuss profession related topics.
Dozens of "I did this with AI" / "why do you hate AI" / "AI is the new sliced bread" low effort posts every week make this place not worth visiting. I won't waste time on commenting under "AI slop" myself but I kind of understand the sentiment.
The broader picture should be obvious to anyone by now. US (and other western countries to lesser extent) job market has shifted dramatically in the last 3-4 years, from "we'll hire anyone with a pulse and 3 week long bootcamp certificate" to "you will be made obsolete in 12-18 months / AI efficiency layoffs". And this has made parts of the demographics here overwhelmingly bitter and anti AI.
Armanlex@reddit
It is very very important to foster an anti ai culture, because if we don't have that then reddit will be overrun by ai posts. Its already happening despite that sentiment, but I think it slows it down. Nobody cares if you use ai as a cleanup tool, but if you let it transform your post into slop, then I dont care to read it.
Flashy-Whereas-3234@reddit
Hitchens AI Razor
That which can be created without effort can be dismissed without effort.
The burden of readability lies with the author.
Steve_Streza@reddit
AI output is like a fart stink. You can like your own if you want, but other people generally don't like having yours shoved in their face.
rocketbunny77@reddit
"don't have the right to judge"
First day on reddit?
Professional_Monk534@reddit (OP)
XD, I meant that it is not a white/black or right/wrong thing There is no rule/law that says that you can’t post AI generated posts. In the same way that there’s no rule that say they can’t comment that It is just that I want to discuss it and maybe see something that I don’t rn.
fletku_mato@reddit
There is a rule for low effort posts though.
DeltaJesus@reddit
Because it's a distinct and distinctly shit writing style that's especially common for all sorts of spam bots and "hidden" advertising.
I would much rather read 10 posts with not great English than yet another 4 bullet point questions at the end slop post.
56killa@reddit
AI;DR
Mornar@reddit
Cool acronym, mine now.
Drugbird@reddit
There's a lot of posts on Reddit made by bots that use generative AI to write the text.
It's pretty useless to engage with those posts, because you're just chatting with a bot. If I wanted to do that I can go to chatGPT myself.
When people use AI to rewrite their posts, they make them indistinguishable from the bot posts.
BigJimKen@reddit
Spend a few months reading prose spat out by whatever LLM is best at writing in your native language. You'll quickly see why people are very, very sick of reading AI generated text. Your eyes just slide off it, it's absolutely fucking awful.
GumboSamson@reddit
Bot farms write posts to influence public opinion.
Humans (who now make up less than 50% of Reddit traffic for the first time!) sometimes flag these posts so others know that it’s part of a campaign.
In other words, people who accuse content of being AI-written do so because they believe they are doing a service to the community.
fletku_mato@reddit
If I want to discuss with ChatGPT or Claude, I'm perfectly capable of doing that by myself.
How so?
SoulCycle_@reddit
in the same vein you can skip their judging comments though right?
Why do you have the right to judge them for judging ai posts.
Why do you care others are judging ai posts?
Professional_Monk534@reddit (OP)
I can, of course. But I want to discuss that. Maybe we can keep comments related to posts content instead of spamming “AI generated” comments.
auximines_minotaur@reddit
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