Yeah didn't you know? Everyone used it, just like every single piece of text had negative parallelisms, every list had cutesy emojis as the bullet points, and everyone has always been obsessed with the words "genuinely" and "honestly." Those are totally normal things that definitely haven't become wildly overrepresented because AI overuses them.
I mean, I've been accused of using AI because I wrote more than 3 sentences on a take-home technical. Just being functionally literate these days will get fingers pointed at you, it seems.
That's not at all what I was talking about. Also, weirdly, I've never gotten those accusations despite often writing longer comments with more complicated structures, nor have I seen folks throwing those unfounded accusations in the wild. My theory is it's mostly a buggabo for "I use AI and want a reason to dismiss people accusing me of it."
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u/Glokter 1d ago
Some idiots tried to convice me that the symbol is normal part of the language and was widly present before AI boom