“The loudest voices preaching about taste and AI are often the ones who never de...

AnimalMuppet · 2025-09-18T13:31:14 1758202274

AI stuff is tasteless in a different sense: It's like food that has no flavor. It "lacks salt" in some non-literal sense.

And I think that is not all that surprising, because much of what it was trained on was corporate-speak, which has the same problem.

paulpauper · 2025-09-18T14:32:36 1758205956

OTOH I read the success rate is only 50-50 at detecting it. AI text does leave some clues, like those infamous em dashes, but those can be patched with some simple edits. AI images are more obvious because many are intentionally overwrought.

Aerroon · 2025-09-18T14:38:58 1758206338

It depends on what the AI is trying to do. If you write a novel and ask the AI to improve the prose it becomes very obvious if you've dealt with AI prose before.

Fricken · 2025-09-18T13:50:19 1758203419

I would argue the opposite, most of the AI slop I see is gaudy and overwrought, the result of too much flavour carelessly applied.

edu · 2025-09-18T14:44:37 1758206677

I agree. To me it feels like food with too many additives, like fast food.

paulpauper · 2025-09-18T14:33:05 1758205985

airplane meme: that is only what you notice

FossQuestion · 2025-09-18T16:03:22 1758211402

Does it include the author of the blog post? Also your comment is also doing it...

Or is it only bad when "AI people" do it?

serf · 2025-09-18T20:41:30 1758228090

'detect AI' is such a stupid goalpost given the different caliber of output one individual may have from another when coding with an LLM.

do these people detect all AI? Of course not, they detect crap.

bgwalter · 2025-09-18T13:40:57 1758202857

The quoted part is really amazing. The author of the article just makes claims and clearly hasn't been exposed to any real art or music education. I suppose to some extent he means taste in programming, but anyone who is writing such an article does not have that either.

We can also talk about taste in articles, which seems to have degenerated to "any pro-AI article will be voted up and defended".

raincole · 2025-09-18T14:37:12 1758206232

I'm not sure if this counts as a pro-AI article, but I agree. It's void of substance.

The most ironic part:

> When someone preaches about AI taste, ask them to show you their work from before AI. If they can’t demonstrate taste in their pre-AI work, they’re not qualified to lecture you about it now.

Talking about the lack of self-awareness...