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New comment by 512akHaf in "Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel"

512akHaf — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:23:55 +0000

Yeah, like Rob Pike.

New comment by 512akHaf in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

512akHaf — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:15:05 +0000

He keeps his Gulfstream fueled and ready to go to Cyprus, where he bought a passport. In Cyprus there is an international "elite" of Western and Russian oligarchs.

New comment by 512akHaf in "America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen"

512akHaf — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:07:03 +0000

It is LLM with a clever prompt that avoids the most egregious tells (though "load-bearing" appears).

The number of times the article goes on complete tangents, introducing new irrelevant names and the general useless level of detail, all in perfect verbose English points to an LLM. So does the upbeat and persuasive style.

If you write that level of detail, use a historian's style and footnotes. Do not use the synthetic LLM voice that is optimized for rhetoric.