Comment by ajs1998

14 hours ago

I'm seeing so many more typos on the internet than I did a few years ago. I'm convinced some of it is deliberate to ensure readers the writer isn't AI.

From my own experience, a significant minority of my daily writing is sent to an LLM, which is very forgiving of typos. I would not be surprised if people are getting sloppier.

  • I have a theory that every typo you make distracts the LLM from whatever you are trying to get it to do, so I avoid typos as much as possible. I have no evidence that this is true though.

in my case it very much is. im now deliberately leaving slightly off from correct writing, or exaggerated slightly. as a sort of organic behavioral kintsugi

  • The funny thing is that you can easily get a LLM to introduce typos and grammar mistakes if you ask it.