*Edit*: here at least, I am clearly not isolated!

Perhaps I am increasingly isolated in holding this position, but I have no interest in reading "AI"-generated slop.

I love reading.

I read people's blogs and toots and whatever *because people wrote them* and I want to read their own thoughts and opinions.

I buy books, and read numerous different authors. I like finding new authors, bringing new ideas, styles etc.

Same with "AI" images. I'd prefer no image at all.

@neil I should apologise for my current avatar, to be honest. Someone made it for me and it seemed amusing, and, to be frank, close enough to reality. But I agree, trying to read AI writing is hard work.

I have read a few auto translated books, not sure if “AI”, but the writing style stays as the original author I think, just gets the gender pronouns messed up occasionally.

Reading the occasional AI C code is similarly tortuous even if it is “right”.

[avatar now changed]

@neil reviewing an AI commit is really hard work.

When a person writes the code the mistakes, which always happen, tend to be way more obvious.

When AI writes code the mistakes can be much harder to spot. AI code tends to “look correct”, which is the point. You have to get past that to see the errors.

@revk @neil specifically I can often work out what a human coder was thinking.

@RogerBW @neil Indeed.

The clue being that "thinking" was actually involved...

@revk @neil Yes, exactly so. The process of debugging someone else's code involves getting to a state of "aha, they were trying to do _this_". This is literally impossible with LLM code because it was simply copying all the vaguely relevant code it could find.