hard to pinpoint, it's not the traditional AI voice but feels very weird indeed, maybe dumbed down to not give AI telltales? the paragraph mentioning Magic Johnson is somewhere between a kid's recounting and name-dropping for the sake of it
You're probably not old enough to remember when Magic Johnson was diagnosed with AIDS. I was in college and I remember the moment when I heard like a flashbulb memory. I was in my dorm cafeteria near the windows eating dinner with my friends. It was an extremely significant event because AIDS was a huge deal at the time and the fact someone like Magic Johnson got it was utterly shocking. Everyone thought the same thing, that he was going to die soon. There was even a controversy later on about him playing basketball where he could get a cut and potentially pass it along to others. The fact he was still alive after many years and then his HIV count went down to zero is a miracle of modern science.
South Park made a parody about that where the cure is injecting literal money into his veins. I don’t know if you’re aware, but most Americans don’t have access to these kind of things. If anything, it’s simply demoralizing to know your loved ones get to die and the billionaires and their families get to live.
And why is that the case in America? You'd think that something as simple as Medicaid for all (I'd say Medicare but that's clearly socialism and we can't have that!) would be simple. But it's not and I doubt it's ever going to change here.
So in the meantime, in this glorious land of temporarily embarrassed billionaires, who vote to perpetuate a system that is killing them (hand in hand with their own choices) I'd prefer people to have access to the miracles if they can find a way to afford them over taking them away because most people can't.
I used to be a lot more progressive. The re-election of Voldemore took care of that. American needs an intervention. But chin up, I guess, now that we have gutted federally funded STEM, the pipeline of miracles here will soon run dry. I guess that takes care of your concern.
Edit: looked into it and the first paragraph doesn't exhibit any LLM "tells" to me, so I'd rather read it in full or research about the source than judge it. Leaving the rest of my comment because it is my opinion on the argument of using LLMs to rewrite text.
I don't know if this was done here.
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I haven't read TFA, and this explanation comes up again and again, but I'd rather read broken English (or German), than the "enhanced" version.
Considering that LLM rewriting using non-specialized tools is more often than not far from preserving intent and meaning of any input, I'd say I think this applies even more for non-native speakers.
You wouldn't say "maybe the author is not a physician, so they might have used an LLM to fill in the Latin terms and medication doses" or "not a scientist, used ChatGPT to do the statistics using my notebook of empirical data" either.
Language has value and simple language or slightly wrong grammar is preferable to a verbose and glossy distortion of the input.
Sorry if this doesn't apply, since I didn't click the link.
And yeah I'm sure my comment is verbose and partially wrong in my English, but well.
Totally agree, my point was that I didn't get the impression that the article was LLM-generated, for that reason. The commenter I was replying to seemed to think the article was obviously LLM-generated, so LLM-aided translation was one possible explanation, but I don't have any particular reason to believe that's what the author actually did.
I've read the first paragraph rather than skimming it now, and it does show LLM tells, and not so few as to appear accidental...
:D
> water everywhere was not only a necessity but also a marker of status, a matter of discipline, and often an aesthetic pursuit. That’s why, when you look closely at the story of coffee in the Ottoman world, you don’t find only roasted seeds, copper cezves, and foaming cups—you also encounter an unexpectedly refined culture of water. Even today, as specialty coffee digs into water hardness, alkalinity, and pH, it’s tempting to think that some of our “scientific instincts” are, in a way, echoes of the same land.
water everywhere was not only a necessity but also a marker of status, a matter of discipline, and often an aesthetic pursuit. That’s why, when you look closely at the story of coffee in the Ottoman world, you don’t find only roasted seeds, copper cezves, and foaming cups—you also encounter an unexpectedly refined culture of water. Even today, as specialty coffee digs into water hardness, alkalinity, and pH, it’s tempting to think that some of our “scientific instincts” are, in a way, echoes of the same land.
but yeah I still didn't read it all or the think about the source, the website is unknown to me though.
Couldn't help but think the same. Clearly they went through a lot of work to do the experiment and take all these pics, and then it's all let down by such bad text.
i like it and i like that it's free, for that reason i don't think you should evolve to save pictures too, that's where such a project starts costing money. what i would need to start using it:
- more shelf levels
- backup option
- maybe it's a european thing but i like to know a bit more about the people behind it
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