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xkcd #3126: Disclaimer

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You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word 'delve'. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3126/

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[–] bentcheesee@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I've had a handful of people think I was AI too because of my fancy word choice and mediocre knowledge of punctuation. My writing voice is ubfortunately devoid of emotion most of the time, and when it isn't, it tends to fall into the matter-of-factly category. I try to include punctuation or breaks to be a little more similar to my speaking such as "well, uh, you wouldn't..." or "I- Yeah, I don't know." I think my personal favourite I do do is "I think it was.. two..? weeks ago?"

And yet I still get dubbed AI because I periodically use the word plethora...

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] bentcheesee@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

This is the greatest thing I've ever seen, even better than banana man

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

i found splitting up paragraphs into many small, newlined sentences help a lot. it seems to be mainly big paragraphs that give people uncanny feeling.

or alternatively join me. in not capitalizing letters anymore.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

it damn well bloody helps to include a fucking shitload of swearing, e-fucking-specially if it's a mite creative too.