Um, I got called on HN three times now accused of being AI for writing comments by hand.
I got so annoyed at the second time that I even created a post about it. I guess I just get really annoyed when someone accuses me who writes things by hands as AI slop because it makes me feel like at this point, why not just write it with AI but I guess I just love to type.
I have unironically suggested in one of my HN comments that I should start making the grammatical mistakes I used to make when I had just started using HN like , this mistake that you see here. But I remember people actually flipping out in comments on this grammatical mistake so much that It got fixed.
I am this close to intentionally writing sloppy to prove my comments aren't AI slop but at the same time, I don't want to do this because I really don't want to change how I write just because of something what other people say imo.
Don't kid you'reself, people LOVE grammatical and spelling errors. It's low entry, and by far the easiest way to get someone to interact with what you have written.
AI deprives them of this.
Why even read something with no mistakes? Just scan on to the next comment, you might get a juicy "your/you're" to point out if you don't waste time reading.
but yeah I guess, sometimes I wonder if suppose a bot was accused of being AI, I mean if trained with right prompt and everything, it can also learn to flip out and we would be able to genuinely not trust things.
I guess it can be wild stuff but currently I just really flip out while literally just being below the swear level to maintain decency (also personally I don't like to swear ig) to then find that okay I am a human after all.
But I guess I am gonna start pasting this youtube video when somebody accuses me of being AI
It would be super funny and better than flipping out haha xD
"Got no way of prove it so maybe I am lying but I am only human after all, don't put the blame on me, Don't put the blame one me" with some :fire: emoji or something or not lmaoo. It would be dope, I am now waiting (anticipating out of fun) for the next time when I comment something written by me (literally human lmaoo) and someone calls me AI.
The song is a banger too btw so definitely worth a listen as well haha
The writing style just has several AI-isms; at this point, I don't want to point them out because people are trying to conceal their usage. It's maybe not as blatant as some examples, but it's off-putting by the first couple paragraphs. Anymore, I lose all interest in reading when I notice it.
I would much, much, much rather read an article with imperfect English and mistakes than an LLM-edited article. At least I can get an idea of your thinking style and true meaning. Just as an example - if you were to use a false friend [1], an LLM may not deal with this well and conceal it, whereas if I notice the mistake, I can follow the thought process back to look up what was originally intended.
> Using them isn't an advantage, but not using them is a disadvantage. They handle the production part so we can focus on the part that actually matters: acquiring the novel input that makes content worth creating.
I would argue that using AI for copywriting is a disadvantage at this point. AI writing is so recognisable that it makes me less inclined to believe that the content would have any novel input or ideas behind it at all, since the same style of writing is most often being used to dress up complete garbage.
Foreign-sounding English is not off-putting, at least to me. It even adds a little intrigue compared to bland corporatese.
I get using a spell checker. I can see the utility in running a quick grammar check. Showing it to a friend and asking for feedback is usually a good idea.
But why would you trust a hallucinogenic plagiarism machine to "clean" your ideas?
It did not feel off at all. I read every single word and that is all that counts.
I think what you are getting wrong is thinking that the reader cares about your effort. The reader doesn't care about your effort. It doesn't matter if it took you 12 seconds or 5 days to write a piece of content.
The key thing is people reading the entirety of it. If it is AI slop, I just automatically skim to the end and nothing registers in my head. The combination of em dashes and the sentence structure just makes my mind tune it out.
So, your thesis is correct. If you put in the custom visualization and put in the effort, folks will read it. But not because they think you put in the effort. They don't care. But because right now AI produces generic fluff that's overly perfectly correct. That's why I skip most LinkedIn posts as well. Like, I personally don't care if it's AI or not. But mentally, I just automatically discount and skip it. So, your effort basically interrupts that automatic pattern recognition.
