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Feel I'm alone in noticing a huge uptick in flat, mechanical procedural prose online in the past few months 🫣.
Everything, even Vinted descriptions, now seem to use a kind of staccato set of state declarations written, presumably, for programmatic AI parsebots 🤖 than us befuddled wetware meat proxies (with one eye still half-glued from sleep) 🥱.
I mockup an example of what I mean below, cos it really is bugging me👇🏻
@nev I don't doubt it! My eyes glazed over trying to type my banausic example. I can only assume the bots are digesting a lot of agent.md files of late, and weighting towards "that's how humans write" when someone asks for help drafting a birthday card message...
"Hi Cathy,
An annual solar orbit completes. Biological age increments by one integer, zero manual intervention. Short message scanned visually, retina input cascades, dopamine secretes. Orbit continues.
Love Jan xx"
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@omgubuntu I think these are written by LLMs, not just for them.