> Is the article useless slop: fine, downvote it to oblivion.
You can’t downvote submissions on HN, only flag them. Identifying when text was written by LLMs is a useful signal. Maybe you don’t like these repeated comments, but I’d bet the people making them hate even more that they feel they wasted their time reading it.
This attitude will just cause people to write the same thing with AI and then ask it to strip out all the tells. I found it works just fine, but then you push usage underground, making it harder to detect, which isn't in your best interest, assuming you want to be able to detect and avoid low-effort writing.
That argument has been repeated ad nauseam, yet here we are, tells still abound. As if there weren’t people already trying to hide it, or if the model owners weren’t trying to do it either. Of course you can’t just tell it to not use tells and have it work flawlessly, just like you can’t tell it to not hallucinate and have it just be factual. The more you want to hide it the more effort you need.