Imagine all books on earth were written by just 5 people - and worse, they could not remember what they had written yesterday. You would quickly get tired of reading the same flourishes and patterns over and over.
Whatever style models currently in use have, that's what people are going to be tired of, and it's what they're going to recognize as "AI".
You can already do that in your agents.md file, of course, or ask for a re-write and dodge the sameness.
I'm sure it's trivial for somebody who has studied communication or contemporary linguistics, just as it's trivial for me to ask an LLM for tenant-isolation using row-level security in an app
But you know what you like, and you know what bothers you, and the good news is that you don't have to one-shot a solution. You can create a skill and refine it over time. As you test and/or use it, identify copy you don't like and tell the LLM what you prefer instead, and ask it to distill and generalize that feedback into the skill.
Separately we have overlap between AI slop styles and right for the situation writing styles which this highlights.
Using the new CRM example, the clean version looks like a millennial student who rambled on a page, and the AI slop version looks like a draft I could send for PR to corporate managers. I buy the former looks more real, but it also looks sloppy and doesn’t work for most of my use cases.
When I was in school, the structured essay style of the “slop” examples was encouraged and I see it continue to resonate in corporate. The cleaned up versions here def have use cases - reviews for example.
Main point - different styles for different situations and our AI slop versions vs humanized versions both overlap different areas of the “ideal” we continue to look for.
A next step I'd suggest is asking the LLM to use shorter words when available.
The average AI post is likely a carbon copied reddit comment from 2011, that is to say, "no".
I want my boss to know I'm a Good Boy using AI.
(*defeated chuckles and gazes towards my Claude session*)
and needs no system prompt
For the illiterate, sure. Where do you think LLMs picked them up from?
A total, artificial lack of em dashes can in itself be perceived as another sign of AI writing.
I’ve already seen that trick snuck in by newer models. “I won’t use em-dashes; I’ll use semi-colons!”
It stil contains a triple construction, but ranks much cleaner on slop-cop.
Reading what I did get out of it was just a bit uncanny valley strangely enough. Very much had some "hey there fellow kids" energy.
That works right now.
Worked like a charm. This is the prompt I used[3] to write a version for the company I own with my wife, if it helps anyone. The personal version, which lead to the `jamenizer` skill, is very similar, but has some personal details in it.
[1]: With her permission, obviously.
[2]: https://github.com/blader/humanizer
[3]: https://paste.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/303a18228bcd8520e55a76d5...
Fortunately it won't come to that, because there is a real world outside of this bubble.
So the "radical normalists" will be just normal people, and the application of force will not be terrorism but democratically legitimized.
Why do you assume I would do anything against my wife's will?
And I never said anything about "optimizing myself out of existence", this comment was still written by me and no LLM touched it.
But when writing comments on code or editing articles, reviews, and whatever long-form writing I give an LLM to review or edit, it's nice to know it'll keep my writing style, voice, and tone.
I'm already obligated to use LLMs at work, otherwise I might lose my job, so why wouldn't I want to have it write in a way I can actually understand?
Respectfully, that is how one talks about their pet or their kid but not their partner.
But this is not my beer, but by god this platform.
They're supposed to do the grunt work, but the meaning and the connection is a humans-only thing.
The end result is that comment sections aren't enticing to join in on, just read. Which is perfect for ad impressions.
I am increasingly feeling that way about HN, too. If this is all the equivalent of a videogame conversation with an AI, why am I bothering to put the effort in?
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