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And then I'm pissed at myself and at the author for having wasted my time.
Yes. This feeling resonates. I get so angry that I fell for it. That I thought there was going to be an interesting idea or thought in something and the slop-writer managed to trick me. It feels like I myself have somehow been taken down a notch. Feels bad.
“If it takes more time for me to read it than it took for you to write it, I don’t wanna read it”
It’s like posh laziness combined with making up shit on the spot.
As if someone was more worried about sounding formal than actually thinking too hard about the subject, while also having it in one go using a pen.
Proper human text production usually implies some sort of review/interaction process, like I can go back and fix some mistaeks on this comment box, while LLMs are literally autocompleting the next word without much foresight, oversight or any sense of direction.
Same applies for generative “art”, the machine can parrot the techniques but it lacks the bigger picture (pun intended).
The only text where I don't mind reading AI text is when I (or my students) ask it to improve a human-written draft of a physics paper. It's really good at this. Adopting the hedged, super structured, style expected in the community. No surprises, just clear and simple statements of fact or reasoning.
But outside that, I just hate it. Two main reasons I can think of.
First, I despise blatant laziness. At least, try to hide it. Create an illusion of effort. But AI is too transparent in the lack of effort.
And the other reason, it's just always the same cadence. The same literary sentence structures. The beautiful ones you want to read once or twice in a good book. But not at every paragraph.
And as soon as I notice actual slop, the one that sounds good but is meaningless when you think about it, I just stop reading. And then I'm pissed at myself and at the author for having wasted my time.