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

[StillStunned]

Why not? It seems like a clever way to fight back.

I suspect that plenty of people who seize on this trick will go overboard and make their texts completely unreadable. The example in the OP for instance.

Personally I think it's a lazy shortcut. People are encouraged to let their writing skills slip even further, instead of trying to improve them so that they're not mistaken for AI.

I'm biased, though, because writing and language are very much a part of who I am. But the whole point of human writing is that it's supposed to be better than AI slop. If the text you're producing is worse than what AI would generate, then maybe you should just use the AI. Authenticity is pointless if it's crap.

 

[metrifonate]

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​

Also AI will learn to write like this. It is what AI does.

 

[ChloeTzang]

AI "detection" is just out of control. AI detection software and their pattern recognition is complete dogshit and so unreliable that it achieves nothing other than claiming victims. And now we're going to get AI sftware to rewrite your own work to pass AI detection. It just gets crazier by the day.

(This was written with an AI tool) LOL

 

[AwkwardlySet]

People are encouraged to let their writing skills slip even further, instead of trying to improve them so that they're not mistaken for AI.

I'd say this is a misconception on your part. Your position is that if you write well, your writing won't be mistaken for a product of AI. While this should be true, at least for the moment, when it comes to an experienced human reader, the AI-detection tools most certainly don't work that way. Writing well is no guarantee that your writing won't get flagged.

At this point, I think it still helps, but it's just a matter of time before that stops being true. I agree that making deliberate spelling mistakes, or writing unreadable text, is a poor solution, but the same as with most other things, people always reach out for the easiest solutions.

Also, while you say it so casually, improving your writing is not an easy task. It takes plenty of time and effort, and even then, it's an unreachable goal for many people.
You could spend eternity teaching me to paint, and while I could eventually learn to paint passable work, I'll never be good at it. Talent isn't something that can be replaced with effort.

 

[StillStunned]

Also, while you say it so casually, improving your writing is not an easy task. It takes plenty of time and effort, and even then, it's an unreachable goal for many people.
You could spend eternity teaching me to paint, and while I could eventually learn to paint passable work, I'll never be good at it. Talent isn't something that can be replaced with effort.

That's no excuse not to try. Particularly among people who claim that writing is their hobby, or even their passion.

And even then, there are easy tricks that can elevate your writing above the standard of slop. Use sounds and cadence to reinforce your words. Make sure that each sentence flows naturally into the next. Structure your paragraphs logically. Basically bring cohesion and eliminate awkwardness. Think about *how* you're writing, instead of just *what* you're writing.

As I mentioned above, I'm biased. But that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

 

[designatedvictim]

I suspect that plenty of people who seize on this trick will go overboard and make their texts completely unreadable. The example in the OP for instance.

This reminds me of how 'text speak' came into being. When you are charged by the character, excess characters get thrown off the sled.

I couldn't find the old-school meme I was thinking of on this subject, but this Reddit theft about simplifying English gets the idea across.

The European Union commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications (rather than German, which was the other possibility).

As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" and "fosforous" up to 20 persent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments wil enkourage the removal of double leters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplied to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Zen ze drem vil hav finali kum tru.

*Edited for typo!

 

[StillStunned]

I couldn't find the old-school meme I was thinking of on this subject, but this Reddit theft about simplifying English gets the idea across.

I remember that one doing the rounds among my fellow editors back in 1999...

 

[lovecraft68]

AI-The final karma for grammar Nazis

 

[lovecraft68]

"You spelled that word wrong and I never do, pay attention and care about your work!" Hahahahahahahahahaah

"My story is published and yours is rejected!" Muaahahahahahhaahahhaha

 

[TheRedLantern]

AI "detection" is just out of control. AI detection software and their pattern recognition is complete dogshit and so unreliable that it achieves nothing other than claiming victims. And now we're going to get AI sftware to rewrite your own work to pass AI detection. It just gets crazier by the day

Chloe, where is your empathy for the current CEOs of the AI companies? They spared no expense to build us virtual morons that no one asked for, and a few of them aren't even CLOSE to buying their second super ultra mega yacht yet!

It's easy to forget about the little people like these poor souls and selfishly dwell on the negative impact their technology is having on the other 8 billion of us.

 

[OralAllOver]

My work, or just conversation, leaves folks doubting any natural intelligence much less artificial

PROBLEM SOLVED!

 

[iwatchus]

I think the on-line AI detectors sole purpose may be to convince people that AI writes better than humans with fewer mistakes.

Oh, if I write crap with mistakes in it, it thinks I'm human. Crappy writing with mistakes is easy to replicate. It's just an attempt to bring people down to its level.

College professors spend A LOT of time worrying about what is AI generated vs human generated. And we see A LOT of both. And we talk amongst ourselves about this A LOT.

No one and I mean absolutely no one I know says, "Oh, there was a mistake here, it must be human." There is a particular kind of bland crap that almost no human writes. Boring sentence structure, repeated phrases, awkward metaphors. Lots of things that shriek AI. No grammatical or spelling mistakes is not one of them.

I don't know why people can't understand this.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I think the on-line AI detectors sole purpose may be to convince people that AI writes better than humans with fewer mistakes.

Oh, if I write crap with mistakes in it, it thinks I'm human. Crappy writing with mistakes is easy to replicate. It's just an attempt to bring people down to its level.

College professors spend A LOT of time worrying about what is AI generated vs human generated. And we see A LOT of both. And we talk amongst ourselves about this A LOT.

No one and I mean absolutely no one I know says, "Oh, there was a mistake here, it must be human." There is a particular kind of bland crap that almost no human writes. Boring sentence structure, repeated phrases, awkward metaphors. Lots of things that shriek AI. No grammatical or spelling mistakes is not one of them.

I don't know why people can't understand this.

Because these things are considered ‘style’, and style is sacrosanct.

 

[Nightaelf]

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

I get where you’re coming from. And yes, I agree, you should never mess things up on purpose just to prove you didn’t use AI.

What bothers me is this: AI learned to write by reading mountains of human texts. I’m not trying to start an AI debate, but that’s just how it is. It learned by studying how people actually write. Which is exactly why I don’t think those so-called AI detectors can ever really be foolproof.

My latest story on Literotica got rejected for supposedly being written by AI, which it wasn’t. I just thought, fine, maybe my English is too good, or too boring, or too tidy. Whatever. I’ve got a human editor on it now.

But the idea of adding mistakes on purpose? No. That’s where I draw the line. I’d rather keep my story to myself than publish something that feels fake.

Everyone has their own rhythm when they write, those little quirks that sneak in without trying. That’s what makes it human. That’s what makes it alive.Reading other writers reminds me of that, that writing should breathe a bit, not sound like it’s been scrubbed clean by a machine.

So yes, I’m completely with you. If you have to prove you’re human by pretending to be worse at something, then the world’s gone mad.

 

[dmallord]

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.

wow. a hole weak!

 

[NuclearFairy]

This reminds me of how 'text speak' came into being. When you are charged by the character, excess characters get thrown off the sled.

I couldn't find the old-school meme I was thinking of on this subject, but this Reddit theft about simplifying English gets the idea across.




*Edited for typo!

Oh wow, I could not get halfway through that before I started getting a horrible headache from trying to mentally pronounce the words as they were spelled.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

This reminds me of how 'text speak' came into being. When you are charged by the character, excess characters get thrown off the sled.

I couldn't find the old-school meme I was thinking of on this subject, but this Reddit theft about simplifying English gets the idea across.




*Edited for typo!

I vil nov spek viz a German aksent.

 

[Olderwiserstillhorny]

My thoughts?
Artificial ignorance.
Just sayin

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

I genuinely believe that backlash against AI content (text, music, video) will ultimately lead to a new golden age of popular absurdist art

I absolutely agree

 

[Husky_Embrace]

I would like an original idea in rocketry. I want it to be a short piece for LinkedIn, so a text of a few alineas.

To make sure people do not see it as AI slop I want it to be full with deliberate spelling errors and weird frammar that still keep it readable. It is a new trend and I want in on it.

At the start, claim that I wrote it without using AI.​

Here’s a possible draft. If you want it wilder, messier, shorter, or more professional-chaotic, just tell me and I’ll adjust it.


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I promiss this was wote by me myself, no AI stuff anywheres near it.

Rocketry lately been stuck in that same-old “more power, more fuel, more boom” thinking, but I been noodling on a stranger path. What if insstead of chasing pure thrust, we focus on guiding the chaos? Like, micro-shifting exhaust patterns with lil dynamic fins inside the plume, letting the rocket “surf” its own turbulance. It sounds nuts, but the physics kinda likes nuts sometimes.

Imagin a booster that doesnt fight the drift but hugz it—leaning into small wobbles, turning them into steer-energy. Less overcorrection, less wasted propellant, and maybe even a calmer ride for the payload up top. Folks always talk stability like it’s a rigid thing, but honestly, controlled wobbel is still control.

I been calling it “plume steering by wiggly wisdom,” which is probablie not the term the grown-up engineers will stamp on a patent, but it gets the vibe across. If rockets can dance through their own exhaust rather than brute-forcing past it, maybe we unlock a whole weird new chapter of flight.

Anyway, just wanted to share the idea before someone says it first. If it sounds wild, good—space only expands when the ideas do too.

Oh look I wrote this!

It is a stupid premise to claim you didn't make something with AI when you can ask it to write weird. You can get the idea from AI and write it yourself as well.

The thing is that AI becomes harder to maintain. It is a continuous learning cycle.

1. It'll start learning on its own slop

It'll start hallucinating. People will take it as fact and put it in videos, linkedin posts or social media. The scrapers come back and it'll add the data to the training data. It'll start using it, as the new "fact" is coming up more often. It is it's own echo chamber. Each generation dumbing itself down.

2. It'll learn from these "I'm not AI" posts

It'll start incorporating spelling mistakes as it'll eventually think that's how you write.

 

[lovecraft68]

Well now you're just talking about Chuck Tingle!
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The man is a legend in all the wrong ways.

 

[Just4Sheets]

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

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

I have some stories that are caught up in the "Literotica thinks AI was used" nightmare. I say "nightmare" because AI was not used. However, I refuse to introduce bad spelling and grammar to force my way past a faulty detector.

I'd rather have my stories not shown than compromise my writing!

J4S

PS: Hopefully this doesn't break any rules, but this is one of my stories that Literotica is saying used AI (it did not):

https://www.reddit.com/r/transstoriesgonewild/comments/1okviq3

.. you be the judge.