I'll be honest, who fucking cares? Why would you use AI to write for you and then complain that people know AI wrote the code?? If you know people wouldn't like it, why even try!?

Related:

How Claude's text watermarking works

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303350

Tl;dr the author is upset that the slop generator will generate slightly different slop, and calls this perversion of the text, ironically missing the fact that the entire technology takes existing human work and perverts it in order to give him the output that he seemingly enjoys.

Perhaps it's not actually irony, perhaps it is hypocrisy.

This isn't to say there aren't correct statements in the article, but its framed very strangely.

gruber is really out of his element with ai commentary, I fully support the general skepticism but he's seemingly arguing against something he doesn't quite grasp

> the only acceptable answer for why an LLM should choose bananas instead of pineapple (or coconut, or guava, or papaya...) is that it has determined that it’s the best fit for the intended meaning, tone, and sentiment of the text.

It already fails. It randomly picks between close candidates. To help fool people into believing in intelligence claim, I guess.

... If watermarking is a perversion of writing, what does that make 'writing' with an LLM?

I keep seeing an irritating misconception in this space, which is that the alternatives chosen by these algorithms are supposed to mean the same things as what they're displacing. That's not true, and not how LLM generation works. Complaints that two different choices don't mean the same thing miss the entire point.

I know (and understand why) a lot of people cheer the EU’s increasingly vast regulatory environment as being “pro consumer” but I’m really tired of said regulations being inflicted on the rest of the world. If this is what Europeans want for themselves that’s fine. But I no more want their regulations to be the de facto world’s any more than I want China’s.

Wow, never has a single article revealed the incompetency of a tech writer.

Now for the human generated watermark. Timez to addd the speelling mistakes, decreaze the usegage of big words and proper gramicaly usuage. Wish I was joking.