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		potsandpans 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LLMs can get "brain rot" Im curious where all you top commenters were 5 years ago when grammarly was a product used by most professional writers. If you weren't as incensed then, it's almost like your outrage and compulsion to post this on every hn thread is completely baseless.

ewoodrich 6 months ago [–]

Perhaps because it didn't stick out like a sore thumb? Or because it became so prevalent they observe the exact same tics in every other article they read nowadays?

potsandpans 6 months ago | [–]

Are you speaking for yourself? Or someone else?

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