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I had to read this sentence twice: Right now many niche book communities are facing an onslaught of unlabeled AI works, mine included. On first reading, I t
by rahimnathwani 3mo ago
I had to read this sentence twice:
Right now many niche book communities are facing an onslaught of unlabeled AI works, mine included.
On first reading, I thought the author meant that they themselves had submitted 'unlabeled AI works' to one or more niche book communities.
- layer8 3mo agoHow did reading the sentence twice help? Just from that sentence, there isn’t anything that disambiguates it.
- rahimnathwani 3mo agoThe first read was 'automatic'. I read it and my brain formed an impression of what the sentence meant, and I had no conscious knowledge of the sentence structure. The second read was deliberate, and motivated by trying to understand my initial confusion. I considered the sentence structure and realized that 'mine included' could, if you ignore strict grammar rules, refer to 'communities' (which made more sense in context) and not 'works'.
- nonameiguess 3mo agoReading the sentence twice slows down your mind enough to consider the earlier context that, given who this person is and everything else they're writing here, it makes a lot more sense that "mine" is referring the community and not AI works, which is the simpler first read only because one object is physically closer to the possessive than the other.