> you are not imagining things. The job changed. The expectations changed. And nobody sent a memo.
Looks like something AI would say. Regardless of how it really was written
Its really long winded. The entire thing could have been a couple bullet points.
Admittedly it was so long and basic, I stopped halfway.
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Why is AI such a bad writer? Phrasing like this feels like reading Fox News.
I saw someone point out something like: ai makes every sentence count. There’s no building or allowing a point to breathe. Every sentence is an axiom to get the meaning across, and its so grating
It's an interesting way to view it, because what happens in fact is likely the opposite - AI is asked to expand a few bullet points into a blog post
Maybe that's why the writing feels so terrible. The AI is attempting to maximize every sentence while simultaneously expanding on just a few actually meaningful points. And the net result of that dissonance is this rage-inducing vapidity. It's the written equivalent of the Uncanny Valley.
I think it has got past the uncanny valley really - it does read like a human, just a very attention-seeking one, like your typical LinkedIn salesman.
That's probably just default settings though - I asked it to rewrite, and most of the tell-tale signs are gone as I can see (apart from the em-dash)
Making fluff sound grandiose is probably what makes so grating.
> Why is AI such a bad writer?
A better question is "Why can't the devs producing code with AI spot the same poor patterns in the code they are generating?"
Maybe my point is that, to a poor speaker of English, the AI blogpost looks good and reads well. In much the same way, to a poor programmer, the AI produced code looks good and reads well.
In a nutshell, if it generates poor English, WTF would anyone think it generates anything but poor code?
To be honest it still feels crazy that AI is a writer at all. But yeah, not a good one
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Article definitely has an AI writing style