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[+] -14 points 3 months ago (30 children)

Is nobody extremely tired of the AI slop articles??

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  • [–] 34 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    The guy is explaining how to hack around GPU fans which were never meant to be run at lower speed through jumper cables and you complain about slop?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    This “guy” isn’t explaining anything. The entire article is written by AI. It’s the same bland writing style everywhere now.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I don't know whether you read the article. It was quite interesting to me and gave me some good ideas. I not going to replicate what he did, but he has shown me a methodology I could apply to do other things.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)
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    It has nothing to do with the subject of the article. Are you blind? It’s the exact same bland, AI regurgitated writing style as every other AI written article.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    For well-known authors with a large corpus of prior writing, it’s simple to run a style match analysis, if you wish to demonstrate that they lazily used generative AI to write a particular piece.

    But for all the knee-jerk “ai slop” accusations I see on almost every post now, the only justification most offer is that it’s obvious, which sounds like “I can tell by the pixels.”

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    I detailed several of the indications in another comment. If you’re too blind to see the very obvious indicators then oh boy. That’s what makes it AI slop. They don’t even bother trying to hide it. It’s like bad CGI, there’s no need to say “I can tell by the pixels” because it’s transparently obvious.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Is nobody exasperatedly tired of comments calling anything remotely related to AI 'slop??'

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    It has nothing to do with the subject of the article. Are you blind? It’s the exact same bland, AI regurgitated writing style as every other AI written article.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Truly, it does not read like it was written using an LLM to me. Maybe you're expecting it to, so that's what you see?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    “It’s not blah. It’s blah.”, “it’s genuinely ”. I can go on. As soon as you see it once you see it everywhere. When every article reads the exact same way it’s horrendous, it’s tiring, it’s the end of the internet. It’s all bots now.

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    Ah, you got me. I copied the double negative of the original comment. You're right, the replies here show there are indeed very many people annoyed by the 'slop' comments.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    🤣

    Oh wait, I know this one: "I know you are, but what am I?"

    Name-calling. The last bastion of the stubbornly illogical. I can picture you as a toddler, stamping your feet in a huff as you try to think up more names to call people who disagree with you.

    Am I meanie poopoo head, too?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I thought parts felt like AI and parts felt like a British human writing it.

    AI(?):

    But here is the thing: this is a Volta GPU with 16GB of HBM2 memory, 5120 CUDA cores, and I picked it up for about £150 on eBay. The compute is still real. The VRAM is still real. And the memory bandwidth is where it gets genuinely surprising.

    Human (?):

    So I shoved some jumper wires into the connector and jammed the other ends into a spare fan header (turn your volume up)

    I suspect he's used some AI polishing tool to turn his draft into a publishable post.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Yes but this isnt one of them.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    It’s literally AI slop. Ignoring the subject of the article (which is whatever), the article is clearly entirely written by AI. The AI writing style is horrendous. “It’s not blah. It’s blah.”, “it’s genuinely ”

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Its not AI writing. It reads exactly like someone casually talking. Its consice and to the point. There is no "its not x, its y"

    He has been blogging dor dam near 6 years you can go read his older posts the writing is consistent.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    But here is the thing: this is a Volta GPU with 16GB of HBM2 memory, 5120 CUDA cores, and I picked it up for about £150 on eBay. The compute is still real. The VRAM is still real. And the memory bandwidth is where it gets genuinely surprising.

    It’s AI slop. You’re blind.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    🤣

    I feel so bad for you. You're going to see AI over every shoulder, looking back in every mirror, and hear it in every voice. Stop trying to guess now, or you'll soon be insane.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's so clearly written with the aid of an LLM that I'm embarrassed for all the people downvoting this comment. Just because the basic outline of the information presented and the sequence of events comes from the real experience of a real person, it does not mean that the real person wrote the article themselves. Seriously, how many real people write like a bad 80s detective movie script? It's literally a parody trope at this point.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, I just don't care.

    I am a monkey, I live on a rock, in the middle of an infinite empty space, that none of the smartest monkeys on this rock can figure out.

    I am part of a species that has spent its entire history killing itself in the most horrifying and ghastly ways for the most benign reasons that the greatest war approaches us and everybody is so accepting.

    The planet I live on is slowly becoming inhabitable to point where the thought of kids is pointless. And banks have used to many money glitches that currency across the globe is going into hyperinflation.

    I really really cannot illustrate how much I do not give a fuck about the cadence of written words in that small space of relief I get from the inevitable destruction looming in a completely absurd and pointless existence.

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