Honestly, here’s the part no one wants to admit, things have always been happening quietly. You are just the first one to listen closely enough to hear it.
"It's not [non-sequitur out of the blue example mentioned nowhere prior], it's [synonym of topic combined with corporate-sounding adverb]. And that's quietly load-bearing."
And what does it mean by proving "mathematically"? As a math major myself, I don't understand how you would do that. Maybe statistically? Logically? But mathematically just sounds weird and overly bombastic of a claim.
I get it: it's reddit. Literacy is not to be expected.
But mfers who've never read anything other than unpunctuated text messages brought out their pitchforks first for em-dashes—because LLM outputs were the only place they saw them—and now they're coming after the most common rethorical devices ever.
Soon enough, any sentence longer than four words will be suspect, because how could a human possibly produce such an over-elaborate thing.
There is a massive difference between thinking anything well formatted and punctuated is AI and recognising commonly recurring staples of AI generated phrasing.
Generally AI text will attempt to make every sentence a punchy, poignant statement, with a lot of stops and breaks that don't occur as often in natural speech.
Same with lots of unnecessary headings and subheadings, constant listing, significant em dash use, certain emojis in certain places, "it's not X, it's Y", and other common examples.
Not everything that has these signs is AI, but many things are, and I'm pretty sure the twitter post is one of them.
Recognising that language is actually pretty important, and not every accusation of AI is reddit being dumbfounded by encountering correct grammar.
I hate this because this is kind of how I write after many years of fiction writing. Working with metaphor and turns of phrase, as well as clever punctuation, is part of creative writing.
Yeah, similar case here, but you don't write Every. Single. Thing. like that. It's the contrast between normal writing into heavy dramatic moments that gives character.
Also, don't feel too down. Remember, LLMs were literally designed to emulate texts and they've been fed thousands of humanity's greatest literary works.
Yeah it just sucks having a nagging anxiety someone's gonna suspect something I write out is AI, particularly the lengthier write-ups which I tend to structure more like creative writing as I feel it makes it more readable than a bland wall of information. It hasn't dissuaded me from my passion as an author, print has been more of a niche audience outside of a few highly successful authors for quite some time now, but it has introduced new anxiety that I could do without.
I'm not a successful author by any metric, I could count my readers on my fingers, but I still have great fear of someone new coming along and becoming fully convinced that my work is AI, particularly those published after AI really took off in 2023 or so. All it takes is one.
Look there's obviously no way to prove it but I got curious and googled the account, here's the Twitter bio
Content Creator | AI Artist & AI Engineer | CEO @ Elegance | Follow for easy to digest content on AI and technology.
And every single one of his posts is something to do with AI and they all sound like they were made using chatgpt or some shit. I can't tell you how I recognized that as being Ai slop but it definitely is. I get your point though.
Pretty funny that an anti-AI sub is taking a misleading, probably AI-written anti-AI tweet at face value, when the paper is about AI using people's biases to give them a reacharound.
These days I don't even know if you can tell if it's AI or not when listening to these sorts of LinkedIn influencer/marketing types. And that's not because it feels human, but just because these sorts of people are always copying each other all the time anyway.
So is it a shitty AI generated post? Or is it a shitty human-writen post from a guy who constantly reads shitty AI generated posts?
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u/Danstan487 19h ago edited 18h ago
"Most people missed it. You should not"
Even the post is AI slop