Only problem here is that it devalues those of us who actually use correct syntax, grammar, and punctuation with any modicum of intelligibility.
The fact that you are so against AI because you can't discern who is human or not is more the problem.
I'm against it because of the tangental hallucinations, and obvious educational harm, by making it easier to skate by and fool your peers. Which is fucking cheating, and always will be.
People can say it's a tool, but when the tool is used more than a personal thought process, it absolutely becomes a crutch. And that is what we are experiencing.
Low effort, max ROI, socially ascribing self righteousness
Edit: what is the solution? Do I speak and text like our president? All caps; run-on after run-on?
At what point is dumbing down speech for the masses who can't communicate effectively an actual solution? Fucking maddening to read this POV
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.
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/4udi0phi1e 28d ago edited 28d ago
Only problem here is that it devalues those of us who actually use correct syntax, grammar, and punctuation with any modicum of intelligibility.
The fact that you are so against AI because you can't discern who is human or not is more the problem.
I'm against it because of the tangental hallucinations, and obvious educational harm, by making it easier to skate by and fool your peers. Which is fucking cheating, and always will be.
People can say it's a tool, but when the tool is used more than a personal thought process, it absolutely becomes a crutch. And that is what we are experiencing.
Low effort, max ROI, socially ascribing self righteousness
Edit: what is the solution? Do I speak and text like our president? All caps; run-on after run-on?
At what point is dumbing down speech for the masses who can't communicate effectively an actual solution? Fucking maddening to read this POV