Comment by trane_project
12 days ago
I pasted a blog that I wrote myself and flagged hundreds of patterns. Granted, the article is 15,000 words so some are expected but there are simply too many false positives to make this and any similar tool have any usefulness beyond flagging the most obvious offenders.
And looking at its suggestions, they are not very good. People are better developing their own writing style than trusting generic advice meant for common-denominator writing.
I did the same thing, and also found the results pretty mediocre. At best it did point out some places I could've dropped a less important word to be more concise, but pretty much any editing will do that (and I do think I tend towards verbosity as a writer; it's a flaw, but it's my organic flaw). Beyond that it was just pattern-matching on sentence structures it thinks are over-used in LLM-generated prose. Even if that's true, it's not a good argument for why I should rewrite a particular sentence in context.
yup same just tried it myself which an email I wrote.
like llms are using our language here so there's gonna be patterns we use that they also use.
i dont think we're ever going to get to a place where we have a "yes/no this was written by AI" kind of tool. i do be worrying what this might do to the fabric of society but there's no puttin this damn cat back in the bag so i guess we'll find out