Fuck AI

OP's article is applicable.

ChatGPT uses the same style for emails. Flowery prose, bold/italics, and huge blocks of text that don’t say much of anything. Another hallmark is “slop” phrases; overused terms you eventually learn to recognize. See this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1g6k4ci/superslop/

https://github.com/sam-paech/antislop-sampler/blob/main/slop_phrase_prob_adjustments.json

Also check out EQBench’s slop taxonomy in the writing bench: https://eqbench.com/creative_writing_longform.html

And the slop score, which is an indicator more than a detector: https://eqbench.com/slop-score.html

Fortunately, the vast majority of non-developers (like your boss) use ChatGPT or Gemini, and their style is pretty easy to sense… I call them “deep fried.”

But different models can be harder to sniff out.

Like, if I wanted to fool you, I’d probably pick GLM 4.6 with task vectors, a slop blacklist, the force it to think in Chinese (so its own English tokens don’t bias it). Then it’d be basically impossible to detect.

If it's sent with Outlook, em-dashes are automatically created from two hyphens by default.