AI speak driving me mad!

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I’m so sick of reading posts with AI speak like “let that sink in”, “here’s the thing” or “and that matters”. Why do people respond to posts on Facebook with an AI written reply? Who bothers feeding the original post into chat gpt (or whatever) in order to produce a reply? Often then people “like”it and say what a brilliant well-thought out response it is. Some people call it out as AI but many don’t.

Hands up, I do use AI for some things, so I’m not bashing it altogether but i can’t stand this churn out of homogenous drivel. Don’t get me started on Linked In 😉

I think it might be the impetus I need to just get off social media altogether. Anyone else?!

I use some of those phrases at times and not only am I fully human, I don’t use AI at all.

Ya, I use those phrases too. My son has also occasionally told me I text like an AI, it’s just my natural way of writing.

The only clear giveaway for me is the elongated em dash, and even then, I give people the benefit of the doubt as they may have drafted something themselves, and then fed it into an LLM to make it more coherent to the masses.

Nothing more annoying than a thread being full of people going ‘This was written by AI’, ‘This wasn’t written by a human’ etc when people have absolutely no ability to tell if it was or wasn’t, and I literally work in AI services.
Third level institutions, with huge access to funding, software and massive ramifications if they get something wrong can’t even reliably tell if something is written by AI… why do you think you can?

I don't use AI to write or text. I do like the use of a dash, which I understand to be an indicator of AI style. I don't hink I would recognise AI writing styles.

I think "let that sink in" has been around for years, I don't think it's indicative of AI.

There are definitely some phrases that I associate with AI but I also think that as the use of LLM has increased, more people are taking these phrases and using them in their own non-AI communications. Language is infectious basically and I think as time goes on, the differences between AI and humans will become increasingly small.

Regular dashes are fine, it’s the longer em dash that’s a dead giveaway.

You’re right, OP, I am getting tired of it too. As someone who works with language, it’s abundantly obvious when someone has used AI. There are so many hallmarks, not just the use of one individual phrase but the whole tone, sentence structure, word choice, repetitive phrases. I just stop reading at that point.

"This is not (insert subject); it's this"

Everywhere!

Also, AI over-uses the word ‘quietly’. It’s another tell.