MIL has stolen my childhood christmas decorations!

[ExhaustedPigeon37]

Hello all,

Bit of a strange one but I think my MIL has stolen my Christmas Decorations!!

They have been in my family since I was small and although they aren’t expensive, nothing special they are just sentimental to me.

We had these three decorations, saying Joy, Noel and Ho Ho Ho with a Santa head on the top. The letters cascade downwards and the Santa has a loop so that you can hang them up. This year I put our decorations up and only found the Joy one. Asked DH and he said he hadn’t seen them, so I only put the Joy one up thinking I’d come across them in another box, I never did.

Fast forward to yesterday when we went over to theirs and they live about an hour away so we stayed for dinner and catch up after DH finished work. MIL was showing us her new decorations and the tree (which is themed red and white). I happened to glance at the bottom of the tree where I saw THE/MY Noel and Ho Ho Ho decorations hanging off of her tree!!! I’ve never seen these decorations at their house before, so the only conclusion I can come to is that they are mine, which is why I couldn’t find them this year!

Asked DH and he said he didn’t notice, asked if he remembers us giving them to her or anything and he said can’t at all. Last year we moved house in

I’m so shocked. What do I do? Do I ask for them back? Do I just leave it? Do I sneak them out when we next go there? DH wanted to stay at home on Boxing Day but I now want to go there to retrieve my decorations (they have been invited on Christmas Day but declined due to the journey and FIL recently having had a knee replacement).

Sapling.ai is one of the top rated AI detectors. It assessed the post as 100% fake.

GptZero - also highly rated - thought it was a mix of AI and human written, with the majority of sentences AI.

I guess AI-hunting is the new sport?

Stop stirring. A lot of us really enjoyed this thread!

I use LLMs every day at work for code generation, I thought OP’s update was definitely AI when I read it. I just assumed she was busy on Christmas Day and didn’t have time to write the update. The denial of it is bizarre. Everyone should be able to tell the difference between AI and human content, it’s an important skill to have!

Yeah sorry guys, I'm not saying I don't believe the thread, but the update is spot on for a ChatGPT post. The fact that ChatGPT itself can't recognise it is not evidence it's not the author! I didn't see AI style in other posts but the update, yes. As others have said it's entirely obvious to people who use it a lot. It's ok to use AI to hone a piece of writing but people should know that the style is very distinctive and it will be spotted.

Well done @ExhaustedPigeon37
Glad you have your decks back

Omg! REALLY?! Genuine question… please tell me what is distinctive about it. It reads like something I could easily have written, depending on what books I’ve been reading at the time; as I tend to be influenced somewhat by the phraseology of my current reads. I have no interest in using AI so nothing untoward jumps out at me at all. I do wonder if any and everything well-written will now be accused of being the product of AI.

Very strange!

Errr … nope!

Just because you don't have the imagination or creative writing skills to write such an interesting and amusing post it doesn't mean other people aren't able to. Don't judge others by your own standards and stop being a twat.

Why are they twats? Because they don’t find this funny or amusing? That they find it all a bit twatty?

No, because they are bores.

@ExhaustedPigeon37 Thank you for this thread- gave me such a delight.

Utter bollocks! I would definitely write something similar to this in this situation. Just because you'd use chat gpt doesn't mean OP has ffs

The structure is completely different. OP writes in paragraphs with sentences of longer lengths. The AI post is broken down into headings, subheadings and bulleted lists. The sentences are much shorter. There are paragraphs that are one sentence long. The heavy use of emojis and ticks as bullet points, ellipses and em dashes are classic tells. As soon as I saw the heading (in emoji parenthesis) plus a subheading, I was sure it was AI. No biggie at all until OP denied it. It’s important to know the difference. For eg phishing emails are written by AI now, you can no longer rely on bad grammar or spelling mistakes to spot them

Apparently pointing out an AI-written post is boring.

Must add jazz hands next time!

And this thread is what you find exciting in life?

You're on it too, reading p.39.

The tone, the style with the bullet points, the way it sums up, the punctuation! It's too smooth, too slick, too consistent, it's not in keeping with the rest of her posts. ChatGPT adds a strange tell called an em dash which I've never seen anywhere else which is a double length hyphen -- and I can't even type one on my phone keyboard!

All this chat gpt stuff, come on who really cares. Not me. Why do people act like this on mumsnet.

And?

So happy you got them back @ExhaustedPigeon37 this thread has been a delight - 10/10 on the debriefing!

And for all those saying ‘just have a conversation’ I suggest you look up the Dyson hairdryer and stolen sunglasses threads, plenty of conversations and lots of denials!

I use AI ALOT for my line of work….its also something encouraged in my line of work. I can say with certainty that the updated post is AI.

To me it looks like OP has posted her paragraphs/story into chatgpt and and chatgpt has organised it. As PPs have said there are several tell tale signs. That post is full of them.

That’s not to say what happened didn’t happen but 100% the update is written by AI.

If you want to use an em dash, hold down the hyphen. Some people do use a lot of en and em dashes in their writing.
Agree with the others saying gtp in this case though.

Probably because they're calling out potentially a fake story too. I really dislike made up posts even if they entertain people.