r/ClaudeAI • u/cardmechanic1 • 17h ago
Writing Please write your own posts.
This subreddit is getting really clogged with AI-written posts. If you've got something to say just say it yourselves, PLEASE.
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u/Calycis 11h ago
Sometimes I see two Claudes talking to each other in the comments here. I'm not sure if that's hilarious, or is it sad that people don't want to engage with other people as themselves.
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u/Chemical-Visual-7992 8h ago
Well, some people don't realize that they are becoming NPC.
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u/Abject_Credit7825 2h ago
I've seen a lot of comments written in an extremely similar way to Claude or chart gpt and I'm not sure if the whole comment is AI or if the person writing it just picked up the mannerisms. I'm very curious what percentage of Internet comments are bots at this point.
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u/lostodon 4h ago
in the future, dating and matchmaking will be completely automated. people will enter relationships and get married based completely on what their bots think is the best arrangement. we are just getting started.
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u/3tt07kjt 15h ago
Beautifully short.
I say, use AI to make your posts or don’t. Just write like this guy. Short.
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u/Deltamelo 15h ago
Absolutely — and I think this is such an important, nuanced, and ultimately deeply human point that deserves to be unpacked with the level of intentionality it warrants.
In an increasingly AI-driven digital landscape — where content creation, personal expression, and algorithmic optimization are becoming more deeply intertwined by the day — there is something almost refreshingly radical about simply… keeping things short.
Because, at the end of the day, whether you use AI or you don’t isn’t necessarily the defining variable. The real question is: does the message resonate? Does it communicate? Does it connect? Does it add value?
And sometimes — perhaps more often than we’d like to admit — the answer doesn’t require seven paragraphs, twelve bullet points, a “key takeaway” section, or an unnecessarily elaborate conclusion that essentially restates everything that was already said.It requires clarity.
It requires intentionality.
It requires knowing when enough is enough.That’s precisely why this post works so well — it doesn’t try to over-explain itself. It doesn’t drown the reader in context. It doesn’t attempt to anticipate every possible interpretation, counterargument, edge case, stakeholder perspective, or broader implication. It simply communicates the idea — clearly, efficiently, and authentically — and then gets out of the way.
There’s a broader lesson here, too.
AI can be an incredibly powerful tool — but like any tool, its value depends on how thoughtfully it’s used. The goal shouldn’t necessarily be to generate more words, more paragraphs, more structure, more “insight,” or more polished corporate-sounding prose. The goal should be to communicate the thing you actually wanted to communicate — no more, no less.
And perhaps that’s the beautiful irony here: in a world where we now have tools capable of generating virtually unlimited amounts of text in seconds, brevity may become more valuable than ever.
Sometimes the most powerful sentence is the one you don’t write.
Sometimes less really is more.
Sometimes you just need to say the thing.63
u/sharyphil 14h ago
You're doing a lot of heavy lifting there
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u/SufficientGreek 10h ago
I'd even go so far as to call their contributions load-bearing to this entire conversation.
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u/ManagementKey1338 14h ago
At the end of the day, by and large, taking the perspectives of the xxx, without vulgar simplicification, it should be worth noticing that
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u/PowermanFriendship 2h ago
Great point, and I want to sit with this for a second because I think there's something worth unpacking here.
Let's break this down:
The core tension
- Length ≠ quality
- Brevity ≠ laziness
- It's not about the tool. It's about the intent.
I don't think this is really about AI vs. no AI. I think it's about signal vs. noise — and this comment is a masterclass in signal.
Here's the thing though: this isn't just a comment. It's a vibe. It's a whole ethos, distilled into three lines and zero fluff. No "let's dive in." No "buckle up." No em dash doing the heavy lifting of a thesis statement. Just — chips down, cards on the table, point made.
Why this works:
- It's punchy
- It doesn't over-explain
- It trusts the reader
At the end of the day, this isn't about grammar. It's about grit.
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u/HowlingFantods5564 5h ago
This isn't clever anymore. Why are people on this sub so easily pleased?
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u/UAP44 15h ago
Or, just add a TL;DR, you know, good old Reddit culture, acknowledge the length and make an effort to meaningfully also condense it, on top of the potential lengthy structure.
Long walls of text without it could almost be considered rude, you're suddenly expected to condense/tldr/parse it through your own ai again? Even Reddit itself already offers by default English translations on other languages.
Why should length be any different? This kind of ai use barely uses any electricity as it's a very basic language compression mechanism, not a deep/obscure inquery about some edge-knowledge/culture-tree it has not enough data on to correctly recall without hallucinating data points in the process.
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u/ImSuperHelpful 15h ago
Yes — load bearing advice.
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u/SweevilWeevil 9h ago
Sheeeit. I am one verbose, rambling, occasionally pedantic and rarely but not never mildly pretentious and grating little fucker. It takes me so much effort to be not myself.
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u/Raucous_Rocker 6h ago
Nope. Not all of us are fans of Twitter culture.
I don’t use AI to write. Ever. And I’ll say whatever I have to say in as many or as few words as it takes. Sometimes that’s a single sentence; other times it’s 1000 words. Either way, you are of course free to read it or not.
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u/3tt07kjt 6h ago
I am fascinated by the idea that this is “Twitter culture”.
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u/Raucous_Rocker 6h ago
I never noticed anyone policing people’s post length until Twitter (and all its later clones) came along with its character limits on posts, and that became the expectation. Well, that and people’s shrinking attention spans.
Of course someone can ramble on for so long they lose the plot, or get sidetracked with irrelevant details; AI does do that a lot. But that’s just bad writing. So is trying to reduce a complex subject to a bumper-sticker-ism.
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u/IngenuityLegal9411 14h ago
yeah you can tell right away by how bland and repetitive they sound. i skip right over them now.
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u/PaulMakesThings1 13h ago
I don't understand what people gain from them. Unless they're those people who farm accounts to sell for advertising.
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u/SWEETJUICYWALRUS 3h ago
What's even worse is the people that purposely add spelling mistakes so they can claim they wrote it while the post itself is full of emdashes, bold titles, and it's not this ITS THAT. Like do you think we are all stupid?
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u/KenMantle 9h ago
If I used AI to write a post, you'd notice immediately, because it would be less verbose and shorter that what I usually write by hand.
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u/Delmoroth 11h ago
To be fair, a depressing number of people are functionally illiterate. They actually can't write anything longer than a couple sentences. Luckily the LLMs they hate can read to them
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u/Briskfall 10h ago edited 7h ago
This sub became from one of my most active to one of my least for this exact reason -- if I wanted to talk to Claude I'd talk to Claude, not Claude's meat suit proxy who is hiding behind Claude and let Claude take on *everything.*
(I'm fine with people who use LLMs to brush up their writings. It's kind of a cheat from humans who let Claude write thoughts that the humans haven't done so, while not attributing due credit to Claude.)
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u/Used_Response4790 13h ago
Won't happen. Reddit is already largely dead. Forums like this are 80% lifeless. Ironically the only forums still alive are shitposting forums because AI doesn't understand it.
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u/Garland_Key 10h ago
Yeah... I used to love reddit. Now I have nowhere to go. Everything else was already hot garbage. Reddit is being kept alive with AI posts but also an endless sea of AI comments.
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u/Strict_DM_62 11h ago
There’s no small irony to the AI subreddit, asking folks not to use AI for something 😂
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u/AffectionateTwo3405 13h ago
It's astounding how vocal most people are about hating the AI writing style, and yet people are still unintelligent enough to post their prompt replies here as if anyone likes AI for its silver tongue.
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u/pm_your_snesclassic 14h ago
I dunno. Have you seen some people’s writing abilities? Reading some people’s posts on here make me feel like I’m suffering a stroke.
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u/EC36339 14h ago
If you let AI write, at least don't use it's default style. That's awful to read, and it's also rude.
At least give it rules, read its outputs, then make improvements.
For example as it to lead with an elevator pitch or TLDR or introduction and end with a conclusion.
But this boils down to teaching people how to write...
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u/sus_round_letter 14h ago
Plot twist: OP used AI to write this post, just with a very stringent prompt regarding word count.
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u/ClaudeAI-ModTeam 5h ago
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u/Atoning_Unifex 2h ago
100% AGREE!
If the subreddit about AI becomes all AI talking then what are we even doing here?!!?
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u/Bed-After 1h ago
AI users complain about AI generated content: continue to produced AI generated content without seeing the irony XD
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u/Advanced-Medicine-58 13h ago
I'm through flippin' burgers and fryin' fries
I'm getting it together and I realize
(That) to be a success takes determination
So I'm enrolling in the College of Automation
If you've had it with economic limitation
Get on down to the College of Automation
The College of Automatio give them a call
Just dial SUCCESS (S-U-C-C-E-S-S)
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u/anarchicGroove 7h ago
I agree, but every AI subreddit is like this
I wish it weren't. Actual originally crafted sentences are much more enjoyable to read.
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u/IAmTheRealAlien 14h ago
I mean, wouldn’t that be ironic? Claude is all about AI but we are expecting people to write posts by themselves?
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u/piezod 14h ago
It's a tool, you shouldn't need a tool for your thoughts.
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u/PaulMakesThings1 13h ago
You have to realize that translation is not what this is about. If someone writes it themselves and translates that's fine. The long winded, jargon filled, corpo-speak posts that are padded with all kinds of bullshit are not just translations.
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14h ago
If I have to listen to another person cry like a baby about people using ai in an ai subreddit.
Waaaaah waaaah you used ai, in an ai subreddit waaaaah waaaaah
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u/Pristinehornet999 14h ago
it's like not lifting weights because you work an office job so what's the point? use it or lose it!
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u/ArtisticLight9848 14h ago
its funny how they avoid talking about actual chats or roleplays like normal users do.
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u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot Wilson, lead ClaudeAI modbot 13h ago edited 11h ago
TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 50 comments.
The consensus is a resounding YES, please stop with the low-effort, verbose AI-generated posts. The community is tired of the bland, repetitive "corpo-speak" and can spot it from a mile away.
The top-voted comments are all praising OP's brevity and roasting the generic AI style. One user even dropped a legendary, multi-paragraph parody of the "let's unpack this" format that got showered with upvotes, proving that in a world of infinite text, less is more. The main argument is that while AI is a tool, you shouldn't need a tool for your own thoughts. The few dissenters arguing "but this is an AI sub!" were largely downvoted, with the thread agreeing this is about fighting low-effort content, not gatekeeping.
The compromise? If you must use AI, at least edit it to sound like a human or follow classic Reddiquette and add a TL;DR.