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How to Spot AI Writing

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Re: How to Spot AI Writing

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Stock Claude writing is extremely obvious to me, it always uses the same sentence structure, it loves to verb nouns, every sentence has MAX IMPACT, etc. I find it really offputting nowadays, just because it's so overused.

It's strange reading a piece of text, having one's AI-dar flag it, then noticing that it's a piece of writing from 10 years ago, and remembering that AI writes this way in part because these tells have all been popular in human writing in the recent past and beyond.

Hm, I've never had that happen to me, do you have any examples?

Re: How to Spot AI Writing

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post #20
post #11

Surprised to find no mention of "load-bearing" and "gated" particularly for Claude. In particular Opus 5 is scaling new heights of incomprehensibility with excessive metaphor-making, especially when it uses an existing word in the prompt or the code comments as a novel metaphor in an unrelated context.

My Fable pet-peeve is "You're half right, and half wrong, and the wrong half is worth diving into"

But fables is often worth diving into at least. Opus 5 says this and then rambles on about something completely irrelevant or even wrong

Re: How to Spot AI Writing

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its more like a cat and mouse game, slowly ai would know ah that makes my writing ai like cool, added to negative prompt.

No. That is not how AI works. It’s built by people, contrary to some of the more woo-ey hype. There’s no “agency”, or personal desires, or person to desire anything.

Re: How to Spot AI Writing

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post #28

its more like a cat and mouse game, slowly ai would know ah that makes my writing ai like cool, added to negative prompt.

No. That is not how AI works. It’s built by people, contrary to some of the more woo-ey hype. There’s no “agency”, or personal desires, or person to desire anything.

(in homer simpson voice) That's not how AI works... so far!

Re: How to Spot AI Writing

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Turing Syndrome (1): "The point which the amount of AI generated data on the internet surpasses human generated content, to the extent that it is impossible to distinguish between human and AI generated content.” The term is derived from the Turing test + Kessler syndrome This is distinct from the dead Internet theory (2) where humans can actually distinguish if a response is a bot. (1) https://kemendo.com/blog/turin…

Love a good self-citation, it'll definitely catch on
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