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Re: How to Spot AI Writing

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

1bpp wrote: post #30
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #17

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

Citations aren’t gonna cite themselves!

Re: How to Spot AI Writing

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Post by bitwize »

It's not about em dashes. It's not about particular turns of phrase. It's about getting the whole picture.

Seriously the biggest tell for AI writing is "eighth grade essay syndrome". You know how an eighth grader writes an essay and they don't have enough original thought to fill up the word count so they pad it out with impressive sounding bloviation and dramatic language, often repeating key points or rephrasing them in a more long-winded way? AI does that on its default settings, probably because it's been trained on a lot of posts from StalkedIn douchebags who never matured beyond that level of writing. It's a reliable sniff test even when the AI has been prompted to avoid the usual obvious tells. Except if you're reading StalkedIn posts. Then it's just how people write.

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Post by anonu »

> With every update, our study shows, AI writing is becoming more similar to human prose.

Any possible vice-versa: There's a meta problem with AI writing detection. I have found my (non-AI-assisted) prose possibly enhanced or modified by my learnings and observations at how LLMs write. In some sense they have made me better at structuring my thoughts and how to communicate them.

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Post by wafflemaker »

anonu wrote: post #43

> With every update, our study shows, AI writing is becoming more similar to human prose. Any possible vice-versa: There's a meta problem with AI writing detection. I have found my (non-AI-assisted) prose possibly enhanced or modified by my learnings and observations at how LLMs write. In some sense they have made me better at structuring my thoughts and how to communicate them.

As teachers at my school say, AI is a good aid and a terrible worker.

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Post by paradoxyl »

What happened to unreadable sociological journals since AI, the kinds where people used to make (manual) generators that could imitate their vacuous fluff. For ai, it should be effortless to flood their submissions with literal nonsense.

Can't find a link to the pre-AI generators... they are ALL ai paper generators now.

Re: How to Spot AI Writing

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Post by jdw64 »

I'm fine with reading AI edited content as long as the author is credible and trustworthy. Unless a reliable author keeps getting exposed... Because there's so much GENAI content on websites these days that I don't really have a choice

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Post by ahartmetz »

kranner wrote: 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.

I don't know which model, but... "quietly"

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Post by keiferski »

One way to tell is if the tone is hostile, cynical, or otherwise not full of that giddy optimistic tone associated with what I’ll call “California Business English.”

The mainstream AI companies are loathe to output anything too controversial, so if someone is writing like Burroughs (in content, not merely style) they are less likely to be AI. That is possible to bypass with local models, but the vast majority of writers aren’t going to do that (yet.)

IMO we’re about to see an explosion of slang and offensive language in writing culture.

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Post by grvdrm »

derwiki wrote: post #31
kranner wrote: 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.

“Reply with ASD-STE100” has been a God-send.

Just tried this as part of an ask about chronic inflammation. What an enormous difference your tip makes in the reply style and structure - wow. And thank you.
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