The AI Great Leap Forward
22 points by addison
22 points by addison
Using the Great Leap Forward as a metaphor was a great idea by the author, and it gives a historical lesson at the same time.
However, the text is obviously heavily AI generated: Em-dashes, short-sentence-salves, overconfident writing. I can imagine that the author might not be a native speaker, and I often hear about non-natives using AI to 'improve' their texts. However, this reads less than AI refinement and more like full generation. LLMs are a suitable tool for refining pre-written text, fixing smaller errors and improving flow while keeping the original character.
Maybe I'm out of the loop, but what is meant with the lobster claws in the AI-modified propaganda pictures?
Overall, this article was a missed opportunity. With more polishing instead of slop this could have been an excellent article.
The claws are probably a reference to OpenClawd, which was a faddish GenAI agent framework from a few months ago.
god dammit I swear to god, again? Can I trust no random blogs anymore?
I think that's it, I'm pulling from fixed feeds. Tired of this.
I avoid a lot of unfamiliar sources since there's so much AI content now. There's a lot of great and genuine human work out there, but it's getting buried beneath recommendation-optimized AI content.
However, the text is obviously heavily AI generated: Em-dashes, short-sentence-salves, overconfident writing.
Inspired by another poster I signed my soul away to get a Pangram account. It correctly identified my texts as non-AI and also gave this piece a clean bill of health based on a ~350 word sample.
I am well aware of the difficulties of trying to automatically detect GenAI output.
Thanks for going through the effort! But honestly, this article is definitely, in my opinion, AI generated. It ticks almost all the boxes.
I know people use em-dashes without being AI, that's not the thing. It's more the general vibe and writing the style, the assertiveness and the way statements are built, often in an 'absolutistic', comparative way, e.g. 'not ..., but ...'.
If you read the author's about page, you can also see that he is, unlike the article would suggest, deep in AI and its uses, so I would not be surprised if he just made notes and let an AI write it up. It reeks of this.