I think this is actually a human struggle - I add Conclusions to my blog posts / dev guides because it feels awkward to just end with the last step.
But it also always feels like I am just awkwardly restating things I just said. It's not a thesis, an article generally not complicated enough to need a re-synthesizing of main points at the end.
I have an unusual way of communicating sometimes that used to be quirky and fun. Now I simply get accused of being a bot. Before LLMs I never got accused of being a robot.
I think the idea of good writing is soon going to morph with writing that doesn’t feel like it was made with AI.
It drives me crazy that em-dashes are supposedly a smell for AI now. The em-dash is a great and underused bit of punctuation.
I am just glad I am not in college dealing with all the AI and faulty AI detection crap happening. Ridiculous false accusations of plagiarism were already awful enough before this.
If you're going to be this superstitious, then you might as well lean into it and have a little fun. Better throw some herbs into the air and do a little jig for good measure. Personally, I'm going to accept that I won't be able to tell, because models are trained and prompted to appear human.
I think this is actually a human struggle - I add Conclusions to my blog posts / dev guides because it feels awkward to just end with the last step.
But it also always feels like I am just awkwardly restating things I just said. It's not a thesis, an article generally not complicated enough to need a re-synthesizing of main points at the end.
I have an unusual way of communicating sometimes that used to be quirky and fun. Now I simply get accused of being a bot. Before LLMs I never got accused of being a robot.
I think the idea of good writing is soon going to morph with writing that doesn’t feel like it was made with AI.
It drives me crazy that em-dashes are supposedly a smell for AI now. The em-dash is a great and underused bit of punctuation.
I am just glad I am not in college dealing with all the AI and faulty AI detection crap happening. Ridiculous false accusations of plagiarism were already awful enough before this.
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I used to love em dashes. But now I can't use them anymore — people will think it's written by AI.
Take the space on either side away—it’s still grammatically correct, but the machines don’t like it.
If you're going to be this superstitious, then you might as well lean into it and have a little fun. Better throw some herbs into the air and do a little jig for good measure. Personally, I'm going to accept that I won't be able to tell, because models are trained and prompted to appear human.