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Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by palmotea »

redsymbol wrote: post #68

I wrote a post on linkedin last year titled "Do not use AI to write." Boy, was it controversial. I could not believe how hard some people were pushing back in the comments. Quoting from myself there: "When you write your own words, you are forging your own voice. It is distinctive, conveys your unique world view, and connects with others in a way that is specific to you alone. If you use an AI tool to write for you i…

> Boy, was it controversial. I could not believe how hard some people were pushing back in the comments.

I've spent very little time on LinkedIn, but what I have read struck like individuals writing in the voice of a corporate communications department giving a TED talk.

So, given the kind of metrics many corporations are putting in front of employees, I bet there are a lot of people on LinkedIn who strongly believe writing with AI is the company-approved RIGHT THING TO DO(tm).

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by ornornor »

I too loathe LinkedIn. However it kinda feels like you have to use it if you’re a freelance senior developer and want to find projects. At least that’s what many B2B people say.

So I’m wondering: long term freelancers who make a living out of freelancing (and I’m not talking employee type of positions where you’re basically an employee but get paid on invoices), where and how do you acquire customers if not on LinkedIn?

How do you not participate in the LinkedIn AI slop and still fill your pipeline?

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by palmotea »

ikesau wrote: post #14

Beyond the OP's AI-written or AI assisted distinction, I'm also noticing people mimicking LLM's speech patterns. I've read blogs from people who I'm quite sure are above pasting AI output directly into their words who nevertheless are sounding more and more like AI as the sum of all their conversations with Claude begins to rub off on them (myself included, probably)

> Beyond the OP's AI-written or AI assisted distinction, I'm also noticing people mimicking LLM's speech patterns.

I wonder if long disfavored words like "ain't" might make a comeback as proofs of humanity.

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by EFreethought »

palmotea wrote: post #125
ikesau wrote: post #14

Beyond the OP's AI-written or AI assisted distinction, I'm also noticing people mimicking LLM's speech patterns. I've read blogs from people who I'm quite sure are above pasting AI output directly into their words who nevertheless are sounding more and more like AI as the sum of all their conversations with Claude begins to rub off on them (myself included, probably)

> Beyond the OP's AI-written or AI assisted distinction, I'm also noticing people mimicking LLM's speech patterns. I wonder if long disfavored words like "ain't" might make a comeback as proofs of humanity.

If they do, then AI writing will incorporate them.

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by EFreethought »

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #107
tayo42 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a corporate phrase that predates the current llm stuff along with things like ping, circle back,table that

Is it? I'd never heard it until Claude (or maybe Gemini was where I first heard it from). Any idea of the time frame when it started being spoken?

Reach out to tayo42, and they can provide some color.

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by palmotea »

EFreethought wrote: post #126
palmotea wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Beyond the OP's AI-written or AI assisted distinction, I'm also noticing people mimicking LLM's speech patterns. I wonder if long disfavored words like "ain't" might make a comeback as proofs of humanity.

If they do, then AI writing will incorporate them.

> If they do, then AI writing will incorporate them.

Eventually, but at least for something like "ain't" the hill to climb to get there will probably be a lot higher, because you've got decades if not centuries of explicit discouragement and very little presence in existing formal writing (and maybe online writing period).

The more durable proof of humanity will probably be hyper rapid slang evolution, but that's going to have the downside of social fragmentation and making the past less legible. If slang changes rapidly over the course of a year, will anyone still remember the slang from 10 years ago to understand an old post?

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by EFreethought »

ikesau wrote: post #14

Beyond the OP's AI-written or AI assisted distinction, I'm also noticing people mimicking LLM's speech patterns. I've read blogs from people who I'm quite sure are above pasting AI output directly into their words who nevertheless are sounding more and more like AI as the sum of all their conversations with Claude begins to rub off on them (myself included, probably)

Lately I have seem some Reddit posts with bullet points. I know it's a Power Point cliche, but that style almost never showed up on Reddit until about a year ago. I think a lot of those posts are AI-generated.

For a while I worked on defects for a web app at a large corporation. Users would submit walls of text, with a lot of unneeded details. A lot of people need help organizing their thoughts.

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

#130

Post by asdff »

redsymbol wrote: post #68

I wrote a post on linkedin last year titled "Do not use AI to write." Boy, was it controversial. I could not believe how hard some people were pushing back in the comments. Quoting from myself there: "When you write your own words, you are forging your own voice. It is distinctive, conveys your unique world view, and connects with others in a way that is specific to you alone. If you use an AI tool to write for you i…

It isn't surprising given how many people totally blew off assignments in english class growing up. Even pre ai, pre social media, reading was dying or already dead. Writing a close second. So many people in high powered positions sending those

"ok

Sent from my iPhone."

emails.

Many people in fact don't like doing. They like shutting off their brain. Sitting still and not using their body and letting muscles atrophy and fat pile up. AI is perfectly aligned with this disease inherent in our post survival civilization. These are the people who would have died off in the hunter gatherer era. Now we go against the forces of natural selection and what do you know, lazy nonthinking people everywhere.

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