> Everything I read these days may have been written by Claude, so I’m constantly trying to determine if what I’m reading is or isn’t
I think it's even worse: There are also people who did write the original posts themselves, but then used AI to "polish" the style - i.e. reformulate a perfectly legitimate post as slop.
So even if you're reading obvious slop, you can't be sure if it's actual slop or a human writer "pretending" to be AI (because they haven't got the memo yet that is style is now a negative signifier, not a positive one)
I think it's even worse: There are also people who did write the original posts themselves, but then used AI to "polish" the style - i.e. reformulate a perfectly legitimate post as slop.
So even if you're reading obvious slop, you can't be sure if it's actual slop or a human writer "pretending" to be AI (because they haven't got the memo yet that is style is now a negative signifier, not a positive one)