I swear half the posts on here are just slop now

Submitted ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨mudkip@lemdro.id⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

Is it just me or has this site gotten weirdly… sterile lately?

Like I’ll be scrolling and see a post that’s formatted all nice with perfect paragraphs and I think “oh cool someone put effort in” but then I start reading and it’s got that feeling. You know the one. The “as an avid enthusiast of” and “it’s worth noting that” and bullet points that sound like a LinkedIn post.

Nobody talks like that. Nobody.

And the comments are worse!! Someone will ask a simple question and get back three paragraphs of perfectly structured nothing that somehow says less than “idk man” would have.

I miss when posts had typos and people went off on tangents and you could tell an actual human with a personality wrote it. Now everything reads like it was optimized for SEO or something.

The dead giveaway is when every sentence is the exact same length and has that weird AI cadence. Or when someone uses “delve” unironically. No real person has ever said delve.

Idk maybe I’m being paranoid but it feels like people are just prompting an AI, copying whatever it spits out, and posting it without even reading it themselves. And somehow it gets upvoted??

We used to complain about reposts. Now I’d TAKE reposts over this soulless generated crap.

Anyway. Rant over. Just feeling weird about the state of things lately.

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KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Hi Mudkip, you are totally right! Our posts are getting very sterile. We will try to delve into the reason for this and do a better job going forward.

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- Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  We should make a game plan
  —step one: muddy our posts🤮
  —step two: delve into the topic and come up with great answers! ⬆️🔥🎉
  
  I’m sorry, so very sorry.
  
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  - altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’m getting the error “post only 75% muddy” Can you increase the muddy quantity? Additionally 25 more friendly cheerful style points?
    
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s@piefed.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Do you have links to any examples? I can’t say I’ve seen a whole lot of what you’re describing apart from a few isolated posts or comments here or there. I’d suggest checking to see if a significant portion of these posts are coming from a specific community or from a specific instance, and then adjusting your blocks to accommodate.

P.S. Since we’re on the topic, I’m not a bot; I just talk and write like this.

P.P.S. That’s not entirely true. I would have written “I’m not a bot—I just talk and write like this.” but it didn’t seem like an appropriate time to use an em dash.

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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t know. A lot of us here are autistic.

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treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Nobody talks like that. Nobody. […] Or when someone uses “delve” unironically. No real person has ever said delve.

There’s literally dozens of us. Dozens!

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- YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Almost scores!
  
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rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Nobody talks like that. Nobody

How do you think LLMs learned to talk like that? Plenty of people talk exactly like that. It’s just now heavily associated with AI because AI has been specifically tuned to output sentences structured that way.

Yes, AI has a vibe to it that can be very predictable and easy to spot, but that doesn’t mean every single instance of someone knowing how to string a few paragraphs together with certain verbiage is a bot.

Idk maybe I’m being paranoid

Seems that way. Healthy skepticism is good and necessary. Paranoia not so much.

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Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
idk man

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Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

And the comments are worse!! Someone will ask a simple question and get back three paragraphs of perfectly structured nothing that somehow says less than "idk man" would have.

You would have loved Usenet in the 90s. That's how a lot of people are.

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- 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Omg! Proper grammar, spelling, and sentence structure! And a vocabulary higher than a grade 5 reading level!
  
  MUST BE AI!!!
  
  [eye roll emoji]
  
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Beebabe@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Sometimes I say delve. Like “I hate delves” when I played world of Warcraft. Which I don’t anymore.

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- Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Slop
  
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  - Beebabe@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Am I? Oh no. Or the delve content? Cause it felt like it.
    
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- SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Delves? They’re called Drukhari now.
  
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- Mac@mander.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Why do you hate them? I liked them.
  
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  - Beebabe@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Liminal space vibes honestly.
    
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I write really long posts and I’ve said “delve” exactly four times in my Lemmy career. I know this because I just checked.

I’m like 99.8%, maybe 99.9% certain I’m not an AI.

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XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I say “delve” often in technical breakdowns when writing. I never say it out loud because my hands will tell you we’re digging down into a topic. I use em dashes too, when digressing into an important fact that needs to be mentioned but not expanded upon. It comes from textbooks, not plagiarised LLM gable. Call me assumptive, but I’d expect ley has a higher rate of similar-minded people than other platforms - people that have properly studied textbooks at some point.

You can probably tell I’m human because I usuallyiss a typo somewhere in my post where I hit backspace instead of “M” at the lead of a word, causing two words to questionably mash together. Autocorrect can’t help with those. But that’s what an LLM would say if it knew it’s secrecy was in jeopardy

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nieceandtows@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Well, some people naturally have a flair in their writing style. thinks back to the times when asterisk talk was cool sighs discretely to avoid attracting attention

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owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
As an avid enthusiast of Lemmy, I’d like to delve into this topic a bit…

Nah, can’t do any more of it.

I can’t say I’ve seen a particular uptick in slop, but I’ve seen other red flags. Ah well.

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JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Though I know how infuriating it must appear, below the surface is much more complicated and nuanced than it first seems. Perhaps if I threw in a paragraph outlining why or how people notice that maybe an ai was writing the sentence, it’d become clear.

But I’ve seen enough hentai in my life to know how this turns out.

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MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Just do yourself a favor and block the obvious bots or report them if they’re straying outside of the rules.

I noticed it a lot in “news” feeds, which I quickly blocked because I don’t want to fucking doomscroll, but they often ARE bots mindlessly mirroring “news” articles that are increasingly being generated by shitbots.

After I blocked all the bullshit, Lemmy/Piefed is actually pretty good, if a touch quiet.

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DaMummy@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Idk man

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- Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  <aol>Me, too!</aol>
  
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- MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I know right?
  
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t think this is happening but I’ll be on the lookout

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K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
To truly delve into the art of writing is to embrace the challenge of constraints. I will endeavor to delve deeply into my lexicon, striving to use the word delve precisely nineteen times. As I delve into this task, I must delve past the initial awkwardness and delve into a rhythm that makes the word feel natural, not forced. My intention is to delve beyond a simple word count exercise and delve into the craft itself. One could delve into the history of the word, or delve into its etymology, but I will not delve into such topics here. Instead, I will delve deeper into the immediate requirement. I must delve into the nuances of sentence structure to accommodate this repetition. To delve this way is a unique experience. I delve into my creativity to ensure each use works. As I delve further, the task becomes clearer. I can delve into the flow of writing with ease. This final sentence will delve my intent home, ensuring I have met the demand and can delve no more into this specific requirement.

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ieGod@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
K

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pentastarm@piefed.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That sounds mildly infuriating.

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psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I haven’t read too much comment lately and i haven’t notice this, but maybe also due to me just auto-skip any lengthy reply, especially when it’s really not needed.

That aside, i assume people lately use autocorrect a lot and the mistake is far fewer than not.

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