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Ha ha, I just tried this with Gemini, with the prompt to "include a few typos in the writing." The first time didn't include any typos that jumped out at me, so

Ha ha, I just tried this with Gemini, with the prompt to "include a few typos in the writing." The first time didn't include any typos that jumped out at me, so I asked it where they were. Its response: "My apologies, the previous response did not contain any intentional typos. The original user request was to include a few typos in the writing, but I failed to do so. The text was edited to correct any accidental errors before being sent. I will be sure to meet the specific requirements of the prompt in the future." So I said, "Redo the request, but this time show me the typos you include." And it rewrote the paragraphs, with a message at the end: "The typos included were: "investmen" instead of "investment" "financ" instead of "finance" "regulashions" instead of "regulations""

robocat 1y ago
Perhaps AI would usually suggest childish or uneducated spelling mistakes. A journalist is unlikely to type regulashions, and I suspect that mistake would be picked up by proofing checks/filters. Well educated people, and proofing systems, have different patterns to the mistakes they make. Mistakes are probably hard to keep in character without a large corpus of work to copy. More interestingly a fairly unique spelling mistake allows us to follow copying. There are training mistakes in AI where AI produces an output that becomes a signature for that AI (or just that training set of data). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45031375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45031375 (thread about "Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6" Unclosed parens to prove I'm a Real I)
- goopypoop 1y ago
  "Caterpillar" was a spelling mistake in Dr Johnson's dictionary