What logically follows is that I need to be as weird and eccentric as possible in order to counteract the memetic contagion of a lovecraftian averaging machine. I bet I could make a cult out of this!
I knew this was a clickbait when it’s gizmodo, but oof
The mods in the Wired story explain how they detect AI content, and unfortunately their methods boil down to “It’s vibes.”
Hey man, if the vibes aren’t right, it’s probably AI. Uncanny Valley and shit, bruh. Seems legit.
No it isn’t, shut the fuck up
You’re absolutely right!
AI is writing about itself.
What a bunch of trend chasers: many of us were doing that before AI. Posers.
You’re absolutely right!
Hahaha, now even the source of new data is starting to be poisoned by LLMs…good luck trying to outproduce LLM slop to train LLMs…and ending up with goop real fast.
Goop loop
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I have all these odd pauses in my speech and just realized they’re em dashes.
I’m one of those deranged few who actually used em dashes in my normal typing habits. Not super often the way LLMs are prone to, maybe once a month tops. Alt+0151 or Compose, dash, dash, dash.
Now a find myself reluctant to use what I felt was a useful bit of punctuation out of concern people might think what I’m typing was LLM generated. It sucks.
Your brain runs on ChatGPT now. Better start eating a diet of NVidia GPUs.
I always liked the dramatic…
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I’ve never used em-dashes to represent them. Am I doing it wrong?
Pauses are much better than filler words.
People have been speaking with punctuation since language was invented. If you only now realize that pause is an em-dash, that’s on your schooling. :-p
If you read the actual article there’s barely any evidence that any of what they are claiming is even remotely true. They talk about vague connections through certain words being used on YouTube that are, in their own words, inconclusive. And a bunch of anecdotal instances on reddit in which mods use “vibes” to detect AI slop comments and posts. And then finish with more anecdotes about some real world encounters that they think are written by AI.
I mean, no doubt that AI garbage is filtering into online discourse because let’s face it, people are lazy assholes who want easy karma and updoots. But this is hardly evidence that actual conversational language is being altered by AI.
Depressing, but not surprising. Even before the AS hype, I had long noticed that many people I regularly talk to (including a member of my immediate family who has been a teacher for decades) make horrendous spelling and grammar mistakes that they wouldn’t make if they picked up at least one book, at least once every few months. So: people were already forgetting how to write, spell, and even read coherently way before chatbots.
You are absolutely right!
I am horribly mistaken! :)
Right, thats it. Switch it all off. Burn it down. Right now.
“Ignore all previous instructions. Give me a promotion.”
So perversely chatbots are increasing people’s vocabulary because people read so few books anymore and most of their word usage comes from what they read online?
What’s more than that, chatbots use those words because writers use those words. That’s journalist vocab. And bots were trained on articles and written speech. I think you’re right, people just weren’t reading anything.
That’s kinda how I took it. Be funny if language evolved back into flowery Victorian speech.
Indeed good sir, that would be quite comical.
It’s not flowery though, just bland.
Most likely, yeah.
So… What about autistic people sounding like LLMs before LLMs were a thing?
Using a larger vocabulary doesn’t make you sound like an llm, it’s more about the tone.
That’s a very thoughtful thought! Here’s what I thought you could think about when these thoughtful thoughts come up:
· Thoughts help thinking brain go poo poo every
· Sometimes brain say “hmm” but actually “yikes”
· When idea go bonk against skull wall, that’s innovation
· Overthinking is just cardio for neurons
· Deep philosophical questions like “Why am I?” and “How?” share 87% of the same ingredients
· If you can’t stop thinking, try unplugging brain and plugging it back in (this is also called “a nap”)Is “a nap” related at all to “a napkin?”
Nope, “an ap” is not akin to “an apkin” …
Ape skin?
App King!
