People Are Writing Like This To Prove They Didn’t Use AI

[dmallord]

What's in your eggnog?

My latest story ran afoul of Lit's AI. Scraped it. Stripped it. Killed it and reposted with a severe case of emotional fears. It posted almost immediately, well three days. Go figure. And yes, I did it with the thoughts of some AI thinking my words were not my own. SaD ThAt.

Even Grammarly wants to rewrite this! Hell of a world to be living in.

 

[AG31]

No, this is just scientists who should know better not knowing better and trying to cut corners and use gen AI slop instead of actually putting the work in. Or not using it at all. It's lazy and honestly makes them look foolish.

I thought AI always spelled correctly???

 

[AG31]

and older Gen Zs returning to analog,

Really? That's a cheering idea, but first I've heard of it. Just how does one return to analog? Old fashioned cameras? What else?

 

[PennyThompson]

Really? That's a cheering idea, but first I've heard of it. Just how does one return to analog? Old fashioned cameras? What else?

Vinyl records, paper books, live music, live dating

 

[YmaOHyd]

I thought AI always spelled correctly???

It almost always does when you ask it to generate text. But AI image generation hasn't really known what text or letters or words are. It's a pattern repeater. Ask it to create images with text and it's likely to create a garbled mess of characters. This has been one of the things that you can look for to tell AI images from authentic hand-crafted human bullshit (along with hands, which AI struggled with for a long time). But things are improving very rapidly. For example:

A beach scene with a hot dog stand called AG31's Hot Dogs

Everyone seems to have the right number of hands and arms and fingers, and the text is right, even if it's in weird-AI-cartoon-font. But the shadows are all fucked up, so it's clearly AI slop.

 

[YmaOHyd]

Vinyl records, paper books, live music, live dating

Also, and this is a big trendy one, dumbphones. Texting and maps, but no social media or email.

 

[iwatchus]

I thought AI always spelled correctly???

No especially when it is generating graphics like this.

I have said this before. I'm used to looking for AI in student writing and it's usually easy to spot. It has NOTHING to do with a lack of mistakes. It has everything to do with a particularly bland style of awkward writing. (Although some ESL writers to write similarly and I try to be more careful there.)

Of course, sometimes students make it easy. My wife just graded an assignment that included the [You name here] in the comment at the top of the code...

 

[SmilingLez]

This is what happens when you have overreactive AI detectors.

https://medium.com/new-writers-welc...-this-to-prove-they-didnt-use-ai-3ce85229d183

These days, I see a trend in online writing. It’s where people intentionally write with spelling mistakes, basic grammatical errors, and weird lettering.

You can find it everywhere!

Why are they doing this? To prove they didn’t use AI to generate the text.

Here’s an example:

See what I’m talking about?

Also, a writer friend pointed out how some people were even promoting bad writing as their USP or proof of being “real.” Oh c’mon! Seriously?
You can’t justify poor language skills under the guise of “authenticity.” Please no!

As someone who can’t even write a WhatsApp message to a friend that way — let alone a post on a public profile — I find this trend repulsive. Because I believe in respecting the correct expressions, be it of English or any other beautiful language on this planet.

Don’t purposely be clumsy to prove you’re human​

In a world where AIs does the work,
I put in some typos and more my quirk.
Spellings a mess,
But I still impress
Just keepin it Uman in my own way.

 

[TheLobster]

Vinyl records, paper books, live music, live dating

Eww! What’s next? Touching actual grass with your bare hands?!

 

[AwkwardMD]

Eww! What’s next? Touching actual grass with your bare hands?!

I built a carpet-covered ramp for my front steps so that I can send my roomba outside to touch grass for me. 10/10 would recommend

 

[YmaOHyd]

Eww! What’s next? Touching actual grass with your bare hands?!

 

[PennyThompson]

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Welp, that's going in the book...

 

[YmaOHyd]

Welp, that's going in the book...

I think Annabelle Hawthorne's probably already written about this.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Really? That's a cheering idea, but first I've heard of it. Just how does one return to analog? Old fashioned cameras? What else?

Replacing certain functions of your phone with their analog equivalent is one way of them doing it. Instead of using the phone camera, have an actual digital camera. Instead of using a notes app, have a pocket notebook. Instead of using an app to read books, get an e-book reader, or even better, get the physical book. I've actually seen cheap instant cameras for sale in my area, and I've seen the older Gen Zs using them the most, and also some Alphas since there are some marketed to kids.

There has also been a rise of journaling thanks to notebooks being used as a tool to fight against doomscrolling.

Also, due to the erosion of the concept of ownership, people are going back to physical media. I mentioned books, but CDs and Vinyls are having a comeback, and I've seen a few boomers here, actually, who went back to using their Walkman, and casette tapes, while niche, are still being used in the lo-fi and garage music scene, with demos and mixtapes bouncing around. Some computer folks are also distributing their own MIDI tracks and tracking music through floppy disks as well. DVDs are returning, and maybe BluRays will, but DVDs are making a bigger comeback. Physical videogames are also returning. With GOG being the storefront that actually sells videogames, and they sell them without any DRM, there are tutorials online showing you how to turn those GOG installers into disks, and maybe even make a big box of your own. With that pushback to older videogames, the homebrew scenes for certain consoles are coming back to life.

There was also this Gen Z from a while back who did an experiment: he decided to live an entire week using exclusively techonology from the 1980s, and by the end of it he didn't want to come back to the 21st century due to the simplicity of those times. He also did it again, but with 1950s tech.

 

[AG31]

Replacing certain functions of your phone with their analog equivalent is one way of them doing it. Instead of using the phone camera, have an actual digital camera. Instead of using a notes app, have a pocket notebook. Instead of using an app to read books, get an e-book reader, or even better, get the physical book. I've actually seen cheap instant cameras for sale in my area, and I've seen the older Gen Zs using them the most, and also some Alphas since there are some marketed to kids.

There has also been a rise of journaling thanks to notebooks being used as a tool to fight against doomscrolling.

Also, due to the erosion of the concept of ownership, people are going back to physical media. I mentioned books, but CDs and Vinyls are having a comeback, and I've seen a few boomers here, actually, who went back to using their Walkman, and casette tapes, while niche, are still being used in the lo-fi and garage music scene, with demos and mixtapes bouncing around. Some computer folks are also distributing their own MIDI tracks and tracking music through floppy disks as well. DVDs are returning, and maybe BluRays will, but DVDs are making a bigger comeback. Physical videogames are also returning. With GOG being the storefront that actually sells videogames, and they sell them without any DRM, there are tutorials online showing you how to turn those GOG installers into disks, and maybe even make a big box of your own. With that pushback to older videogames, the homebrew scenes for certain consoles are coming back to life.

There was also this Gen Z from a while back who did an experiment: he decided to live an entire week using exclusively techonology from the 1980s, and by the end of it he didn't want to come back to the 21st century due to the simplicity of those times. He also did it again, but with 1950s tech.

I hope this catches on because then I could go back to giving my grand kids recordings as presents. I suppose there are ways to purchase links to specific recordings, but forwarding a link just doesn't hack it for me.

 

[AG31]

I built a carpet-covered ramp for my front steps so that I can send my roomba outside to touch grass for me. 10/10 would recommend

Still laughing!

 

[AG31]

due to the simplicity of those times. He also did it again, but with 1950s tech.

Yeah, I frequently hark back to the time when, to get a TV picture, you just twisted a knob and it came on real quick, and then to make it louder or softer you just kept turning that same knob back and forth, and then to change channels you just turned the other knob. Easy peasy and quick!

(Didn't have to deal with stupid "smart" apps that think "peasy" is not a word....)

 

[PennyThompson]

I hope this catches on because then I could go back to giving my grand kids recordings as presents.

If they are in their teens or twenties and you get them a vinyl record of their favorite artist (most artists do sell records again, because it's become trendy) you will definitely be the cool grandma

 

[NaughteeDragon]

A couple of years ago the daughter of a family friend contacted me to find out if I still had the list of songs for a CD I had created for her when she was 7 or 8. She's 23 now. Sadly, the laptop that had that list has long since died.

 

[ColtonWrites]

It almost always does when you ask it to generate text. But AI image generation hasn't really known what text or letters or words are. It's a pattern repeater. Ask it to create images with text and it's likely to create a garbled mess of characters. This has been one of the things that you can look for to tell AI images from authentic hand-crafted human bullshit (along with hands, which AI struggled with for a long time). But things are improving very rapidly. For example:

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Everyone seems to have the right number of hands and arms and fingers, and the text is right, even if it's in weird-AI-cartoon-font. But the shadows are all fucked up, so it's clearly AI slop.

The umbrella is clipping through the side of the building. And something has gone horribly wrong with the guy in black swim trunks...and also purple swim trunks...with whatever he is carrying poking through the back.

 

[YmaOHyd]

The umbrella is clipping through the side of the building. And something has gone horribly wrong with the guy in black swim trunks...and also purple swim trunks...with whatever he is carrying poking through the back.

Yep. And the umbrella doesn't have a shadow. The shadows of the people standing in line don't match their bodies, and they're pointing a different direction from the shadows of the people walking towards them. There's a see-through beach umbrella out there too, with what seems like a skeleton hiding behind it.

 

[AG31]

The umbrella is clipping through the side of the building. And something has gone horribly wrong with the guy in black swim trunks...and also purple swim trunks...with whatever he is carrying poking through the back.

Glad I took the trouble to click on the link, @YmaOHyd.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Writing realistic dialogue which uses slang is not something AI generally does. Words like "Gotta, gotcha, I'm goin to...are not actual typos but will prove you real.

So, it doesn't have to be clumsy.

Exactly. It's been working for me.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

*Raises hand* I will accept that challenge. Who else wants to write dadaist erotica?

Liquified lust drizzles from the camel toe as the Über driver swaddles the voyeurger in a rivulet of discarded moonrays.

 

[designatedvictim]

Well now you're just talking about Chuck Tingle!
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I read that title and by the time I was halfway through it, knew that I didn't need to scroll down to see the author name. [Shakes head sadly]