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I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

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Re: I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

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Post by the_af »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #71
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sam Altman literally said he didn't know how anyone could raise a baby without using a chatbot. We're living in some very weird times right now.

Sounds like a great way for someone to accidentally harm their infant. What an irresponsible thing to say. There are all sorts of little food risks, especially until they turn 1 or so (and of course other matters too, but food immediately comes to mind). The stakes are too high and the amount you’re allowed to get wrong is so low. Having been through the infant-wringer myself yeah some people fret over things that ar…

Sam Altman decided to irresponsibly talk bullshit about parenting because yes, he needed that marketing sound bite.

I cannot believe someone will wonder how people managed to decode "my baby dropped pizza and then giggled" before LLMs. I mean, if someone is honestly terrified about the answer to this life-or-death question and cannot figure out life without an LLM, they probably shouldn't be a parent.

Then again, Altman is faking it. Not sure if what he's faking is this affectation of being a clueless parent, or of being a human being.

Re: I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

#92

Post by latexr »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #61
lm28469 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know someone who was camping in a tent next to a river during a storm, took a pic of the stream and asked chatgpt if it was risky to sleep there given that it "rained a lot" ... People are unplugging their brains and are not even aware that their questions cannot be answered by llms, I witnessed that with smart and educated people, I can't imagine how bad it's going to be during formative years

Sam Altman literally said he didn't know how anyone could raise a baby without using a chatbot. We're living in some very weird times right now.

Sam Altman has revealed himself to be the type of tech bro who is embarrassingly ignorant about the world and when faced with a problem doesn’t think “I’ll learn how to solve this” but “I know exactly what’ll fix this issue I understand nothing about: a new app”.

He said they have no idea how to make money, that they’ll achieve AGI then ask it how to profit; he’s baffled that chatbots are making social media feel fake; the thing you mentioned with raising a child…

https://www.startupbell.net/post/sam-altman-told-investors-b...

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/08/sam-altman-says-that-bots-...

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-cari...

Re: I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

#93

Post by [deleted] »

the_af wrote: post #91
Forgeties79 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like a great way for someone to accidentally harm their infant. What an irresponsible thing to say. There are all sorts of little food risks, especially until they turn 1 or so (and of course other matters too, but food immediately comes to mind). The stakes are too high and the amount you’re allowed to get wrong is so low. Having been through the infant-wringer myself yeah some people fret over things that ar…

Sam Altman decided to irresponsibly talk bullshit about parenting because yes, he needed that marketing sound bite. I cannot believe someone will wonder how people managed to decode "my baby dropped pizza and then giggled" before LLMs. I mean, if someone is honestly terrified about the answer to this life-or-death question and cannot figure out life without an LLM, they probably shouldn't be a parent. Then again, Alt…

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Re: I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

#95

Post by the_af »

Tepix wrote: post #54
mort96 wrote: post #34

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> I even checked one of his responses in WhatsApp if it's AI by asking the Meta AI whether it's AI written, and Meta AI also agreed that it's AI written I will never understand why some people apparently think asking a chat bot whether text was written by a chat bot is a reasonable approach to determining whether text was written by a chat bot.

Well, case in point: If you ask an AI to grade an essay, it will grade the essay highest that it wrote itself.

Is this true though? I haven't done the experiment, but I can envision the LLM critiquing its own output (if it was created in a different session) and iteratively correcting it and always finding flaws in it. Are LLMs even primed to say "this is perfect and it needs no further improvements"?

What I have seen is ChatGPT and Claude battling it out, always correcting and finding fault with each other's output (trying to solve the same problem). It's hilarious.

Re: I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

#96

Post by zkmon »

If you used a calculator to do a calculation, would they say the answer looks like created by calculator and not done by-hand?

I think the only solution to this is, people should simply not question AI usage. Pretence is everywhere. Face makeup, dress, the way you speak, your forced smile...

Re: I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

#97

Post by hammock »

lm28469 wrote: post #47
mort96 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I even checked one of his responses in WhatsApp if it's AI by asking the Meta AI whether it's AI written, and Meta AI also agreed that it's AI written I will never understand why some people apparently think asking a chat bot whether text was written by a chat bot is a reasonable approach to determining whether text was written by a chat bot.

I know someone who was camping in a tent next to a river during a storm, took a pic of the stream and asked chatgpt if it was risky to sleep there given that it "rained a lot" ... People are unplugging their brains and are not even aware that their questions cannot be answered by llms, I witnessed that with smart and educated people, I can't imagine how bad it's going to be during formative years

Why can’t llm answer that question? Photo itself ought to be enough for a bit of information (more than the bozo has to begin with, at least), and ideally its pulling location from metadata and pulling flash flood risk etc from the area

Re: I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

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Post by Kuinox »

komali2 wrote: post #90
Kuinox wrote: post #36

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You call writing in a structured fashion with formal words the "worst linguistic vices"

I was trying to figure out why my SD card wasn't mounting and asked ChatGPT. It said: > Your kernel is actually being very polite here. It sees the USB reader, shakes its hand, reads its name tag… and then nothing further happens. That tells us something important. Let’s walk this like a methodical gremlin. It's so sickly sweet. I hate it. Some other quotes: > Let’s sketch a plan that treats your precious network ban…

Did you not put some weird thing in your prompt ? That's not the style of writing I have in my ChatGPT, I run without memory and with default prompt. Yours try to make a metaphore at every single response.

You can check both in ChatGPT settings.

Re: I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

#99

Post by kevin061 »

Everyone thinks they are great at detecting AI slop, but they usually aren't. For art, there are certain giveaways, but for text?

I regularly find myself avoiding the use of the em-dash now even though it is exactly what I should be writing there, for fear of people thinking I used ChatGPT.

I wish it wasn't this way. Alas.

Re: I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

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Post by neffy »

guerrilla wrote: post #21
nottorp wrote: post #3

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Actually it's public info that ChatGPT was originally trained by speakers of some african business english "dialect". https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape... They said nigerian but there may be a common way English is taught in the entire area. Maybe the article author will chip in. > ChatGPT is designed to write well If you define well as overly verbose, avoiding anything that could be consid…

> They said nigerian but there may be a common way English is taught in the entire area. Nigeria and Kenya are two very different regions with different spheres of business. I don't know, but I wouldn't expect the English to overlap that much.

There are a lot of very distinctive versions of English floating around after the British Empire, Indian newspapers are particularly delightful that way - but there is as the author says, an inherited common educational system dating back to the colonial period, which has probably created a fairly common "educated dialect" abroad, just as it has between all the local accents and dialects back in the motherland.
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