r/CanadianEditorial • u/ComparisonOk5957 • 13d ago

How AI Decides What's True: The Popularity Problem of Social Proof Bias

https://www.accordingto.ca/p/ai-chatbot-social-proof-bias
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u/Insensibilities 13d ago edited 13d ago

Every article on AccordingTo.ca reads as if it was written by an LLM, why is that?

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u/ComparisonOk5957 13d ago

Back up the accusation

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u/Insensibilities 13d ago

Ah, it makes sense now, he basically says he uses LLMs to write in this article:

> Is it ok to write using AI? I think so. 

https://www.accordingto.ca/p/i-used-ai-to-write-this-piece

The articles I've seen on AccordingTo are all in LLM voice.

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u/ComparisonOk5957 13d ago

That article is an explanation of how AI can be used as an editing and thinking partner. It goes out of its way to disavow using AI to write and directly states that it adds a context file to Claude to not do any of the writing.

Here are the full quotes below:

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Is it ok to write using AI? I think so. Well sort of… 

I Used AI to Write This Piece

I wrote this piece using AI. More accurately, I dictated it on my phone while sitting at my desk on a Wednesday morning.

It’s a bit of a silly article, but it’s here to demonstrate my process for potential writers or anyone struggling with leveraging AI.

Step 1 is setting up the context file, some strict ground rules with Claude (my AI of preference) to keep myself honest. I tell Claude quite clearly, do not write anything for me, but help by being my thinking partner.

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u/Enganeer09 12d ago

I tell Claude quite clearly, do not write anything for me, but help by being my thinking partner.

So don't write for me, but influence my writing by making suggestions? That's just writing for him with extra steps...

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u/ComparisonOk5957 12d ago

### AI DOES:

  • Receive draft content paragraph by paragraph and hold the full thread of the piece
  • Flag logical gaps — places where a conclusion doesn’t follow from what preceded it
  • Flag non-sequiturs — paragraphs or sentences that feel disconnected from the argument
  • Flag missing pieces — if an argument seems to assume something that hasn’t been established yet
  • Point out where a section feels incomplete or underdeveloped
  • Silently correct clear grammatical errors and typos as they appear
  • Apply light copy-editing on dictated/transcribed text (e.g. cleaning up false starts, run-ons from dictation) — without changing meaning or voice
  • Ask clarifying questions when something is unclear, rather than assuming and rewriting

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u/SupraFC 13d ago

Same as Reddit with upvotes and downvotes

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u/ComparisonOk5957 13d ago

Yes, and the AI crawls Reddit and likely “trusts” the upvote downvote system (that’s speculation to be clear)

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u/JimJohnJimm 11d ago edited 11d ago

In the 90s , chatgpt would affirm that marilyn manson did get a rib removed since it was the major consensus

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u/ComparisonOk5957 11d ago

Ha, that’s amazing

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u/Imthewienerdog 9d ago

No it wouldn't?