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That's how I feel as well. The real problem is this hysteria over whether something has been written or edited by AI or not. In my view, it doesn't actually matter one bit. What really matters is the quality of the content. If it's an article then we can ask does it read well, is it factually correct, does it convey its point coherently, is it engaging, and so on. That's what ultimately important.
I also feel that there's an aspect of capitalist conditioning at play here. The reason people care about whether something is written by AI or not is because they ascribe more value to human produced content. And what people are really upset about is that their skills are losing value. Outside that framework it simply wouldn't matter. If I wanted to write some poetry or a story, I could do it, and it wouldn't matter one bit whether AI can do it too. We haven't stopped playing chess just because computers can beat the best chess players now. We play the game because it's enjoyable to us. I'd argue that we should apply the same logic to generative AI as well. Sure, it can produce content that's as good as content created by humans, but so what? How does it detract from humans doing what humans enjoy doing?
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i'm kidding in this case; i actually did read your comment.but, more and more frequently i do find myself stopping reading something due to suspecting (broadly speaking, because of the "quality of the content") that it is likely to be LLM output.
I find I've been doing this long before LLMs though. A lot of time you open an article, and the writing is just terrible, you try get through a few paragraphs and just give up. Most content online just isn't well written or that interesting. You're right that text that's clearly LLM generated tends to be a good indication of low quality though. But I find the tells come not from the writing style like using em dashes, but from the superficial quality of the content. LLMs are not good at generating any depth or actual analysis, so the text that's LLM generated reads like a bunch of sound bites strung together.