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MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming

(thelibertyline.com)
302 points cf100clunk | 3 comments | 31 Mar 25 15:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.584s | source
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Luc ◴[31 Mar 25 16:05 UTC] No.43536577[source]▶
Cool but this article is AI slop. It's borderline unreadable, though I guess it looks great to Google.
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1. floatrock ◴[31 Mar 25 16:24 UTC] No.43536816[source]▶
I caught on when I realized the same sentence was being written for the fifth time.
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2. cf100clunk ◴[31 Mar 25 16:33 UTC] No.43536910[source]▶
OP here, and I also hate AI slop so I had a bit of a bad feeling about it at first, but then felt that the payload was more important than the packaging. Submitting ''pure'' content to HN is getting increasingly difficult.
3. inerte ◴[31 Mar 25 16:45 UTC] No.43537043[source]▶
I actually don't think this article is AI slop but instead a text length minimum so Google thinks there's enough content there. Now, I _could_ be an AI wrote it with this rule in mind, but the repetition feels more like the author said what they wanted to say and had to meet a word count quota, so they kept saying the same thing. At least this style of article has existed for many years before AI slop was even possible.