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Your writing style is very much AI-like. I am not accusing you of using LLMs to write this comment, but I would like to point out that you may inadvertently be incorporating LLM-like writing.

One example is that before 2022, praising analogies was not a thing. Now every thread in HN is full of people praising each other's analogies - much like the sycophantic LLM.



Please don't do this here. If a comment seems unfit for HN, please flag it and email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can have a look.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44287157 and marked it off topic.


I did not say it was unfit and I don't see how discussing writing styles and the influence of LLMs on it is off topic on a thread about the effects of LLMs on cognition.

I don't believe I was impolite or making a personal attack. I had a relevant point and I made it clearly and in a civil manner. I strongly disagree with your assessment.


OK, I may have been too quick to pattern-match on characterising someone's writing as being LLM-generated. Sorry for that. However we do want to be careful about criticising someone’s writing style; the guidelines ask us to avoid that.

Also, suspicions about the changing frequency of certain phrases in HN comments can easily be tested:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&prefix=false&query=%22...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&prefix=true&query=%22I...


Really? You claim that praising an analogy would never happen in normal conversation before 2022? Seems fairly normal to potentially start with "that's a good way of putting it, but [...]" since forever...


I claim specifically that "I love this analogy" and "I love your analogy" have become noticeably more common in HN since 2022.




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