The revolt of the reader

	The revolt of the reader(bcantrill.dtrace.org)
	598 points by chmaynard 4 days ago \| 295 comments
	tl;dr: Readers can easily detect LLM-authored writing and increasingly reject it—one survey found 78% stop reading immediately and 71% avoid the author in the future. The author argues that using LLMs to write public pieces breaks the social contract with readers and will ultimately be self-defeating. He endorses Pangram 4 as a highly accurate LLM detector and has updated Oxide's writing policy to require public content pass as human-authored.
	HN Discussion: ↑LLM-generated text is cognitively taxing and readers immediately reject it ↓Pangram is unreliable and irresponsible for publicly labeling texts as AI-generated without recourse ~Agrees LLM writing is bad but questions the survey methodology and self-reporting bias ↓Hypocrisy in embracing LLMs for coding while rejecting them for writing •Curious about why LLM prose fails—whether fundamentally flawed or just associated with low effort