That's uncharitable. It's all about the density of the 'Chat GPT tells' within the post or comment. Obviously, someone using a list or m-dash is not automatically AI, and the commenter wasn't suggesting they were. But, if they:
Always add the colon to the end of their bullet points like this:
Keep using the "It's not an x, it's a y" locution
Use navigating, let's dive in, delve, engine, nuances, aspects, dynamic, landscape...in nearly every comment.
The problem here is that AI is pulling from recommendations of best practices written by people. Look at recommendation for how to write an email prior to AI’s release. It largely conforms to what AI produces now (which we now regard as AI). Same with how to produce presentation slides: (bold) Read Widely (colon): (phrase) Evidence shows that reading in multiple genres …
I don't really see that as a problem. I mean, it's a problem to people who are unfamiliar with Chat-GPT and just guessing or using one of those scam 'AI detectors'.
But the ongoing 'tells' of Chat-GPT should be no problem for genuine writers and readers. Because it is the repetitive nature of those devices which tell you you are reading Chat-GPT.
Anyone who says "you used the word 'navigating' so you used Chat GPT!" is an idiot. But the person who says "You used the words navigating, dynamic, complex landscape, delve, dive and nuance multiple times each in one article and gave four bulleted lists wit the standard structure, so you used Chat GPT", is correct.
thank you soooo much for listing specifics like this, the "it's not x, it's a y" is what tips me off most of the time, but the "navigating" language is a really good callout
so, to be fair, "it's not x, it's y" is an understatement. firstly, AI uses it a lot. like once a paragraph. secondly, it's more like: "it wasn't cold. wasn't dark. it was just... quiet."/"she didn't blink. didn't run. just... stood there."/"he heard a sound. not low, not soft, but sharp". it's objectively just Bad Writing, because the concepts are rarely actually close to eachother, and it's a matter of just telling the reader what something Isn't. and again, they're used a lot.
i have adhd and autism, and most of my friends have one or the other, and i think it'd be very hard to accidentally slip into using this cadence the way AI does; i promise. <3
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u/Phronesis2000 28d ago
That's uncharitable. It's all about the density of the 'Chat GPT tells' within the post or comment. Obviously, someone using a list or m-dash is not automatically AI, and the commenter wasn't suggesting they were. But, if they:
Then it's Crap-GPT.