This does sound like it was written by an off the shelf LLM. You can’t just rely on em dashes anymore, most LLMs don’t spam those anymore.
When you tell a modern LLM to write a post like this, it’ll use a very LinkedIn-esque tone. It’ll spam short, active sentences, often preceded by a colon:
Document your setup. Write guides. Make it easier for the next person. Run services for friends and family, not just yourself. Contribute to projects that build this infrastructure. Support municipal and community network alternatives.
“Not this, but that” and the “rule of 3” are getting less useful as tells, but they are absolutely littered everywhere in this post.
When you run Nextcloud, you’re not just protecting your files from Google - you’re creating a node in a network they can’t access.
I quote this formatting as a joke for obvious LLM writing. I’ve never seen human writing with more than 3 of these in a single post.
My guess is that this was written by Claude since it stays rather personally neutral if you don’t guide it that way.
I made Claude generate a post like this and it’s a very similar tone.
PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
You forgot one more tell that this post is riddled with - “not x, but y”. The rule of 3 is also seen in general sentence structure as well as bullet points. Example:
Em-dash (probably), into rule of 3, into em-dash, into not x but y. That sentence is what made me suspicious but there are plenty of other examples.
Well, that and…this killing had nothing to do with any of those points. The sentence sounds flashy but is completely wrong on closer examination. Almost like a…hallucination…ahem.
h333d@lemmy.world 1 day ago
@PhoenixAlpha I’ll be sure to tell my 10th-grade English teacher that her lessons on rhetorical devices are now considered hallucinations. If “not X, but Y” makes me a bot, then half the op-ed columnists in history are running on silicon.
As for the Renee Good shooting, if you think the infrastructure of surveillance, license plate readers, and cross-referenced databases “had nothing to do” with how ICE operates in a city like Minneapolis, then you’re missing the forest for the trees. I’m not here to win a Turing test; I’m here because I’m tired of seeing tech used as a weapon, you know?
rimu@crust.piefed.social 1 day ago
Oh look it used @ that’s cute
h333d@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I am genuinely new to this platform and form of social media. Am trying my best to keep this to the conversation.
PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The original hallucination:
The new hallucination (also rule of 3):
“Surveillance” and “databases” (what does cross-referenced even mean or add? LLMs like to output word salad) could be applicable, but only because they’re so damn vague. Yes, of course the government uses SQL.
License plate readers, sure they were involved…except that wasn’t even one of the original points. Find a model with better context length…lol. They also have nothing to do with self-hosting. What are you gonna do, run your own license plate issuing server?
Please, you can just say you used an LLM because English isn’t your first language or something. I’m literally giving you an out. It would be way less embarrassing than whatever you’re trying to accomplish.
someone@lemmy.today 1 day ago
shut the fuck up you liar
PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
On another read, I would bet that this paragraph was originally bullet points.