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developers react to AI blog posts report

Report: How Developers React to AI-Scented Blog Posts

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Shriram Krishnamurthi rmoff.net danielroe.dev

“What I'm referring to is pure prose quality. There's a blandness, airiness and vapidity to a lot of AI prose. It's the prose that makes you think "did a human write this?!?" And indeed people don't *want* to read that: writethatblog.substack.com/p/dev-react…”

“How Developers React to AI-Scented Blog Posts writethatblog.substack.com/p/dev-reacti...”

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Jason Hartline: Academics have a responsibility to uncover the truth. That requires language that invites scrutiny and signals receptiveness to debate. Pejorative framing is considered harmful.
Jason Hartline: The terms like "AI slop" and "plagiarism machine" ignore progress to the future. Significant effort in academia and from frontier model providers focuses on understanding, mitigating, and removing …
Jason Hartline: The term "plagiarism machine" does not separate the technology from some data sets on which some models were trained. It presupposes that, e.g., plagiarism cannot be technically defined, tested for…
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theatlantic.com

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis Shriram Krishnamurthi

“If AI eliminated prizes like this, I'd cheer, for they exclude pluralism, as if one among countless works that please judges can be crowned "best" for all. AI mocks prizes by caricaturing prize-winners. Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI www.th…”

“Hi @vauhinivara.bsky.social — I love your work, including this Atlantic piece [ www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1... ], but was really surprised (not entirely in a good way) by the way you presented Pangram: ↵”

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Can ai agents produce real news reporting in rhode island human journalist has some thoughts

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Shriram Krishnamurthi

“Local journalist @phileil.bsky.social has an op-ed on how a well-known local progressive newspaper has been taken over completely to be AI-written. He offers a fairly balanced take, though unsurprisingly he comes down on the side of the humans. ↵ rhodeislan…”

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4 experts · 15 posts · 10d ago
Shriram Krishnamurthi Jonathan Stray B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): If we want to regulate AI, why not start with a simple ban on LLMs using "I"? Easy to build, easy to verify and deflates a hype while still allowing people to use chatbots (so no one can claim we a…
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): I definitely want this to be the norm, but I’m not sure I love how it would have to be enforced. what are you thinking re: enforcement mechanisms?
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2 experts · 9 posts · 5d ago
Benjamin Riley Shriram Krishnamurthi
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Shriram Krishnamurthi: 8/ Still: it is beautifully written, thoughtful, thought-provoking, broad in scope yet light in heft, and speaks a lot to us in the AI age. I got it one afternoon and read it in essentially one sit…
Shriram Krishnamurthi: 7/ The book's weakness is that it's overly situated in its time, which is not unique nor special. A really interesting companion would be the History of the Future of the Past: How does each genera…
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