a few posters over there have even called it out as reading like it’s AI generated. it doesn’t entirely have the tone for it, but paully g plagiarizing an essay by having GPT generate it and editing it to sound slightly more like something he’d write almost makes sense — it’d explain why this thing is so fucking long but doesn’t seem to say a damn thing. the problem is, a lot of his pre-gpt writing is exactly like that too.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's fascinating to see how the narrative (at least in tech circles) has gone in the last 6 months or so: from "I typed a prompt and got a college-level essay" to "no way this [rich][powerful][respected] VC could write anything so incoherent, he must have used an LLM"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

or alternately

This sounds like how I would write when I was on adderall. I mean, what the hell is this statement?

assholes like this are giving adderall a bad name

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 9 months ago

Pretty sure if I asked ChatGPT about essay writing tips or what the best essay ever looked like, it would be more coherent than this rancid melange.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 9 months ago

No way PG has the attention span to write this much.