Every single time I share one of my newsletters on Reddit or in a Discord community, there’s at least one person who confidently declares that it’s “OBVIOUSLY written using AI.” And before you come for my neck: no, I don’t spam communities with links. I usually just give a snapshot of the topic, try to start a genuine discussion, and leave the newsletter there for anyone who’s interested. Yet somehow it always turns into, “The em dashes. The bullet points. The questions. Such an AI giveaway.” It genuinely makes me lose my shit every time. Not just because I’ve spent most of my life writing, both personally and professionally, but because the whole accusation rests on something that just isn’t true. People talk about “AI writing patterns” as though they’re objective. But AI writes the way it does because it was trained on millions of pieces of human writing. Even AI detectors can’t agree with each other, and one of them famously identified the US Constitution as AI-generated. Like, it’s literally in the news right now for actually consuming books out of existence to feed its database!!! And like idiots, writers and creatives keep adapting to AI without even realizing it’s stealing from them. At my previous workplace, we were literally told to stop using em dashes because clients associated them with ChatGPT. Writers are deliberately making their work messier, more slang-heavy, less polished, just to prove there’s a real person behind the keyboard. Y’all, a punctuation mark became a criminal overnight. This tech is LITERALLY breaking the very mechanisms we use to decide what’s real and what isn’t. Yet we don’t even bat an eye and keep squabbling over what AI writing even sounds like. But no one is stopping to ask: What happens when the very mechanisms you’ve relied on your entire life to decide what’s real and who to trust begin to fail? What else about the world are you accepting without stopping to question it? If this got your gears turning, I unpacked this whole idea in a newsletter if anyone wants to read it: https://yourweeklybrainunrot.substack.com/p/ai-generated-content-broken-trust-digital-landscape Edit: y’all are serious assholes trolling me rn. I hate you guys omg 😭😭😭 submitted by /u/Altruistic_Virus8460
Originally posted by u/Altruistic_Virus8460 on r/ArtificialInteligence
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