Kirk Hamilton

I write everything on this blog myself.

After drafting, I edit using grammar checkers and occasionally an LLM to polish the prose, which is the type of thing you write on your blog when an LLM has written everything that you write.

It's always, it's never like an LLM wrote all my stuff.

It's always occasionally I'll use Claude to polish just a little bit, a little bit of polish.

This is all a bunch of supposition.

has led to this really uncomfortable and will become more prevalent ecosystem where there's accusations about AI.

We don't know what's ever truly written by human or truly written in AI.

There are all these tells, but some of the tells are inadequate.

And sometimes something that seems like AI, if you run it through a detector, might actually be human-written, and so on and so forth.

And it's just all led to a very poisoned internet ecosystem.

I'll throw a link to the blog in the show notes so you can check it out yourself if you're curious.

But yeah, it's pretty wild.

And speaking personally, just as someone who writes for a living, I find it very easy to tell when something is written by AI.

I can almost always tell.

And it's gotten to the point where it actively annoys me when I see something that is very clearly written by AI.

I was actually watching a GDC talk because they just put up all the GDC talks from this year's show on the internet.

And so you can watch them if you went and you have a membership there.

Uh, and as I was watching it, it just became very clear that it was written by AI and I just couldn't watch anymore.

It was just so insufferable.

So, uh, yeah, it always, it gives me the ick when I read something and then it turns out it was written by AI.