Don't let AI dictate the way you write!

We've all got a personal and unique typing style just as we do in our spoken language.

Have you ever been writing something and then thought to yourself, "fuck I kinda sound like AI", and then rephrase it?

I'm here to say fuck that shit, write how you want to! Don't let Sam Altman et al. dictate the fucking English language (or any language for that matter)!

If you're being accused of using AI it likely means one of five things:

1. You just said something really fucking stupid.
2. You just said something interesting enough that people assume you couldn't have known it.
3. You made some shit up out of thin air
4. You're arguing about AI with another AI
5. You used AI cause your brain don't work so good on its own.

No matter what category you fall under, just own it. The internet is shitty enough, we don't need to be worrying about self-censoring for fear of being whipped by the cult of daddy Altman and granddaddy Huang.

OK, maybe the em dash is fucked, but we can't win 'em all!

I still use the em dash, for precisely your reasons above!

Good! Glad to hear it!!

Yeah, I mean there's some more reasons to accuse someone of using AI. Fro example repetitive stuff that doesn't really say anything meaningful. Or if a post sounds 100% like some Reddit stereotype. Or is copied from another place and slightly rephrased. And ChatGPT has a distinctive way of writing. If you always start with a reaffirmation, then point out there's two sides to each coin and then lose it in some borderline correct, borderline incorrect ramblings... It'll just sound like ChatGPT to me. I can't help it! More often than not it'll turn out it's a bot. But I'm not correct all the time.

Clues like someone saying something interesting, or exceptionally stupid would count more towards the human indicators, to me.

Dunno. I guess we have to put up with it.

For sure I was being a bit silly, but the point remains. Let's wait for this bubble to collapse ala the dotcom bubble. If this shit keeps up after that, then maybe it's time to retire from the internet as we know it. Sounds far-fetched but there's always a breaking point

It's kind of fascinating that there's a specific AI style of writing which people can recognize now. This is going to be someone's linguistics dissertation.

Hehe, though a point I'd like to add to the discussion: The internet didn't get any better after the dotcom collapse. On the contrary, it kind of got worse... I have a hunch this might be the same. So better prepare, and brace for impact, don't just wait. 😄

10000% and that's a dissertation I would want to check out.

But they're trying to mask it. The OpenAI voice model added random stutters and breaks in speaking to make it sound more "human" but instead it just sounds like a dude high on mushrooms trying to hold a conversation.

Not to mention how moronic it is to make AI less useful just to fool people into thinking it's more than it actually is.

True that, it definitely got worse. But a lot of moronic companies also went out of business when people realized the idea behind it was not valuable at all.

Some people are overly obsessed with their AI witch-hunt they’ve committed their entire life to it.

Yeah, it’s good to have an eye for spotting AI generated content, but it’s also so easy to misfire. Just ignore these people.

Not a dissertation, but here you go:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

.... with many clear examples.

Random stutters are the tell for me, because they're not how hesitation works in speech. A real stutter happens on a stressed word or a hard consonant. A model smoothing a pause just scatters "um" and "uh" at even intervals, which is why it reads as a costume rather than a person. The thing they were trying to hide it with gives it away.

Damn. I use the em dash all the time. LONG before LLMs. Also the Oxford comma, which, apparently, is also an "AI thing". Fuck it. I'mma keep using them, because it's grammatically correct.

The Oxford comma is the most wonderful, amazing, and incredible comma there is. I use it too!

Written language can be confusing without it.
"Please take your children, luggage, pillows and blankets."
Pillows and blankets are together here. This and that. A parenthetical, so to speak.
"Please take your children, luggage, pillows, and blankets"
The pillows and blankets are separate here. This and/or that.
Yes, Oxford commas are not required, but they make the sentence less open to interpretation.

Maybe those were bad examples, but you get it.

Same wavelength. It's just superior imo for exactly the reason you described. It also just 'feels' more well written.

Sounds a lot like something AI would be programmed to say.

Actually I'm SI now, not AI, haven't you heard?

Funnily enough, in my native languages, first version reads more natural, since that's how you write stuff :D

I've heard that from many folks haha language is so interesting to me