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How I'm spending the night

@Lee_Holmes I don't think this is a translation. LLMs are pretty darn good at translating text and don't insert LLMisms if you just ask them to translate.

The whole response is just a summarization of the post sprinkled with LLMisms ("The math doesn't care about appearances" - really?), wrapped up with a super-generic, Grok-style engagement hook. Of course, it's possible that a human genuinely produced this in good faith, but I think the odds are low.

@L29Ah That was my guess, but most of them appear to be established personalities. One AI commenter on my blog had its own long-running blog which, as far as I can tell, was human-operated until ~2024 and then went more or less full LLM. I think it's often real people?

@froge I think you're being generous... a lot of them feel like there wasn't anything in the prompt to begin with. "Write a positive response to this blog post from the perspective of an AI enthusiast".

I just can't wrap my head around why people post AI-generated comments on people's blogs. It's not the first time I'm seeing it on my Substack.