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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/
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...
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.
it damn well bloody helps to include a fucking shitload of swearing, e-fucking-specially if it's a mite creative too.
There really is an xkcd for everything.
Me. I like formatting and using em/en dashes and semicolons.
Imitating LLM to piss off AI haters is just next level trolling. As everyone knows, trolling is a art.
you can keep using pronounciation correctly and writing long paragraphs of words if you lowercase it all, just saying.
Then make it look less perfect with custom command AI, after finding a FOSS AI website that has a lot of uncensored AI my life hasn't been same again
As someone who has been mistaken for an LLM at least twice in the past couple of years, yeaaah. Sometimes I write like that. The LLMs learned from people like me. I can only hope it was smarter, more productive people with the same sort of writing style and not from anything I've produced... although it would explain a thing or two.
Nope. It's you and me, buddy. They learned from a fancy talker and a drunk. That's why they just make shit up.
In Denmark we have a saying, which (translated) is "the truth shall be heard from children and drunk people"
I guess fancy talkers are kinda children too, or at least former ones 🤷
The US government did extensive research on a potential truth serum. The single most effective solution they found was vodka. Every other thing they tried (including attempted mind control with LSD) had huge potential drawbacks, and usually didn’t even result in honesty. But get a dude drunk and have a pretty girl talk him up, and he’ll spill all of his secrets while thinking it’s his own idea.
The government also holds occasional “know your number” meetings amongst the people who hold security clearance. Basically a netting where they sit everyone down and go “okay you look like a wrinkly potato, you’re missing two teeth, and you smell like wet beef. At best, you’re like a 3 out of 10. Maybe a 4.5 if you bothered to shower before you hit the bar. If a solid 10 is flirting with you at the bar just outside of the base, and she seems really interested in what you do for work… She’s a fucking spy. Know your number, and know what you can reasonably pull. Because if you’re pulling above that number, you’re being honeypotted.”
I am not sure how many times I've been mistaken for ChatGPT, but I don't think my writing style is actually very similar.
I'm pretty sure that when people say that, most of the time, they actually mean, "I want to disagree with what you're saying, but I lack the ability to do so legitimately. If I simply accuse you of using an LLM, people will assume I'm right and I will 'win'."
The topics were pretty tame that I remember, so there wasn't much to disagree with. I was just being... uh. Florid? Verbose? Sesquipedalian?
It might be a neurodivergent trait; the need to use the right word to communicate exactly the right meaning even if it runs to several syllables.
It might lose a few people, but I've got to say what I mean.
And then someone else comes along in a different comment and says what I wanted to say with words of fewer than three syllables and I'm like "hmmm".
Someone the other day mentioned semicolons are now a sign of AI. I always liked semicolons for when things are more connected as opposed to a period/full stop :/
Well that's annoying because I've always used semicolons
at that point it's just "grammar and punctuation is a sign of AI", which actually means "i don't know what AI output looks like".
Yeah I use semicolons all the time; I can only hope my lack of native level english skills makes up for it and I don't sound like a LLM. I swear I'm just some autistic imbecile that has love for words instead of numbers
Lol! Same here. I feel seen. :)
Same. I am one of the rare people who know the difference between i.e. and e.g. I know when to use a semicolon vs an em dash.
I no longer feel special; it feels wrong.
I no longer feel special**;** it feels wrong.
Reported as AI bot. /j
Not ChatGPT output — I’m just like this.
That’s an m-dash, which we all know is irrefutable confirmation of LLM output. /s
iirc its m-dash as well as constant rule of threes and generally using incredibly formal sentence structures even when the language involved is not formal in any way. Kind of like what I just did there though probably with an extra comma after m-dash.
Yep ChatGPT must have learned from people like me, because:
Hey, that's a really well-formatted commemt! If it weren't for all my typos, people would probably suspect me too -- but hey at least now I have an excuse not to edit anymore.
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Claim:
- I use bullet points in every post
Fact Check:
Out of your 36 comments, this is the only one with bullet points. That's only 2.7% of your comments. One other has an enumeration, but an enumeration is not bullet points.
Additionally, you have one post, but that also doesn't use bullet points. 0% of your actual posts use bullet points.
Conclusion: Claim is FALSE. Ziffy-fa-Jazz-KZone-Sweek'em does not use bullet points in every post.
Nice :) I like that you did that! But to clarify some things:
Expect to see this accidentally included in someone's forum screed soon:
Here's a detailed response to BombaFan486's post, including three separate (but natural) uses of the word 'revelatory', ending with the disclaimer, "Not ChatGPT output. I'm just like this."
Is there anything else I can do for you?