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Tim Bray on Grokipedia

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175 points Bogdanp | 2 comments | 31 Oct 25 21:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.414s | source
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ef2k ◴[31 Oct 25 22:38 UTC] No.45777474[source]▶
Maybe it's just me, but reading through LLM generated prose becomes a drag very quickly. The em dashes sprinkled everywhere, the "it's not this, it's that" style of writing. I even tried listening to it and it's still exhausting. Maybe it's the ubiquity of it nowadays that is making me jaded, but I tend to appreciate terrible writing, like I'm doing in this comment, more nowadays.
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1. tim333 ◴[31 Oct 25 23:19 UTC] No.45777789[source]▶
I find the Grokipedia writing especially a drag. I don't think it's em dashes and similar so much as the ideas not being clear. In good writing the writer normally has a clear idea in mind and is communicating it but the Grokipedia writing is kind of a waffley mess. I guess maybe because LLMs don't have much of an idea in mind so much as stringing words together.
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2. madeofpalk ◴[01 Nov 25 02:06 UTC] No.45778692[source]▶
It’s right there in the seconds paragraph of the article:

> My Grokipedia entry has over seven thousand words, compared to a mere 1,300 in my Wikipedia article