Using LLMs at Oxide

There was a comment recently by HN's most enthusiastic LLM cheerleader, Simon Willison, that I stopped reading almost immediately (before seeing who posted it), because it exuded the slop stench of an LLM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011877

However, I was surprised to see that when someone (not me) accused him of using an LLM to write his comment, he flatly denied it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011964

Which I guess means (assuming he isn't lying) if you spend too much time interacting with LLMs, you eventually resemble one.

> if you spend too much time interacting with LLMs, you eventually resemble one

Pretty much. I think people who care about reducing their children's exposure to screen time should probably take care to do the same for themselves wrt LLMs.

I don't know what to tell you: that really does not read like it was written by a LLM. You were perhaps set off by the very first sentence, which sounds like it was responding to a prompt?

It reads exactly like all his writing over many years afaict. Which is to say - it reads well. Just because someone is clear, thoughtful, and thorough, does not make them an AI. AI writing is actually quite different to this.