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I've started do this on social media. I got "called out" after using big words or using a - in a sentence. So now I write less good on purpose, so whatever I co
by Someone1234 7mo ago
I've started do this on social media. I got "called out" after using big words or using a - in a sentence. So now I write less good on purpose, so whatever I commented doesn't get drawn into a sidetrack off-topic witch-hunt.
As soon as someone yells "witch" you cannot disprove you're not one, and I've even had people put my handwritten comments through "AI detector" websites that "proved" they were AI (they weren't). It literally just highlighted two popular English phases.
LLMs were trained on sites like HN and Reddit, so now if you write like a HN or Reddit commentator, you sound like AI...
- Kye 7mo agoI put a piece of text in one and the only line it flagged is the one line I actually wrote.
- zahlman 7mo agoI have never really gotten the impression that HN or Reddit commentators write in any particular way overall. LinkedIn, OTOH....
- jjmarr 7mo agoAI only uses big words to engage in elegant variation, not to compress information. If someone calls an article like this a "jeremiad" I know they're a human.
- zahlman 7mo agoOh, well chosen. I keep forgetting that word, and lamenting that "diatribe" (or, er, "lament") doesn't quite fit in some situation.
- ipcress_file 7mo agoInteresting. I'll have to keep an eye out for this!
- Frost1x 7mo agoI don’t think this is a good long term solution. LLMs can do easy language substitutions and you can even force them to add errors. So relying on that alone won’t work as people intentionally make things look more “human.”
- Someone1234 7mo agoRight, but the problem here are other humans yelling "witch," not LLMs. You're combating people's terrible witch-detector, not anything factual or real.
- heddycrow 7mo agoHere's one vote for just be the witch if that's what people need from you. Just make it be what you want to say and how you want to say it. And when they come after you, shame them to the best of your ability or treat them like they are not there.
- mitthrowaway2 7mo agoThat strategy didn't work out well for the witches of the past...
- heddycrow 7mo agoSo what? There's all kinds of things that didn't work in the past that at some point began to work. It wasn't someone who was primarily motivated by fear of the past that made it work the first time.
- bird0861 7mo agoA good general rule in life is that people get one chance to show why they're not worth communicating with, and that's it.
- heddycrow 7mo agoI had almost forgotten that one. Thanks for reminding me!
- teo_zero 7mo ago> now I write less good on purpose, so whatever I commented doesn't get drawn into a sidetrack off-topic witch-hunt. I've begun downvoting each and every entry that questions the authenticity of a comment or article. I don't even bother if the claim is true or not. A text can be AI-generated and interesting, or human-written and dumb.
- lich_king 7mo ago[flagged]
- Someone1234 7mo agoNo, I do not post a lot about AI. I am talking about normal social media comments on various topics. Perhaps your writing style doesn't lend itself to such accusations.