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SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

180 points · 72 comments · ibobev

  1. jdanford · · focus · HN ↗
    Man, I am getting incredibly tired of reading LLM-generated writing
    1. 20k · · focus · HN ↗
      What signals this as being LLM writing for you? I'm crap at noticing specifics here
      1. furyofantares · · focus · HN ↗
        I won't try to convince anyone with specifics but it was definitely LLM generated. I think by someone who knows what topics they want to cover and did have something they wanted to post about. At a high level it is an infodump with almost no opinion expressed.

        I learned a few things from it and have some interest in the topic. So this sort of a weird valley where I'm very annoyed by the writing but also getting something out of it. And it's more than I would have gotten out of promoting an LLM myself.

        Which I know, because I have written a blog post about SDFs before, and I tried to author it with an LLM helping and the text just came out awful. I think I rewrote my entire post eventually - I am fairly confident at least that none of the LLM's words remained. I mention it because I've already read the SDF section of this blog largely, when an LLM generated mostly the same text 5 months ago.

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