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You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word ‘delve’. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3126/
As someone who has been mistaken for an LLM at least twice in the past couple of years, yeaaah. Sometimes I write like that. The LLMs learned from people like me. I can only hope it was smarter, more productive people with the same sort of writing style and not from anything I’ve produced… although it would explain a thing or two.
Nope. It’s you and me, buddy. They learned from a fancy talker and a drunk. That’s why they just make shit up.
Someone the other day mentioned semicolons are now a sign of AI. I always liked semicolons for when things are more connected as opposed to a period/full stop :/
at that point it’s just “grammar and punctuation is a sign of AI”, which actually means “i don’t know what AI output looks like”.
