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I guess part of the advantage of being an extremely long-winded writer who makes lots of typos is that people know that what I'm writing is probably written by a human.

Though maybe people will start supplying context like "no em dashes, and occasionally misspell a word or two", and soon you won't even be able to tell that.

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Typos and EM-dashes are not just obvious. They are avoidable. Here's the kicker: Even if you remove those, other AI smells don't just exist. They are obvious.

Yeah a trend that I've noticed in online comments is people taking LLM generated text and just removing punctuation and making it all lowercase. It's like dude, it's still so obvious xD

Maybe, though maybe we're only noticing it when it's obvious? Sort of a survivorship bias thing?

Who knows how much of the comments on any website are written by humans now; yeah there are plenty of tells so it can be obvious, but that might only be for the exceptionally bad posts.

Maybe. This type of obvious slop is extremely pervasive though, to the point there almost can't be that much undetectable AI writing.

Checked LinkedIn and found four posts in a row that had "here's the kicker".

Yeah, I've also see a lot of "Not X, not Y, just Z" style posts on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn has always been a place full of low-effort posts for people trying to self-promote, so I guess it makes sense to have a robot actually do the thinking for something that is and always has been inherently mindless.

People who say such things constantly make incorrect claims about AI authorship.

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