• Auster@thebrainbin.org
    3 months

    So… What about autistic people sounding like LLMs before LLMs were a thing?

    • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
      3 months

      Autistic people were the original LLMs. I don’t care how much data you shove into it, there is still no LLM on Earth that knows more about trains than an autistic guy who knows everything about trains.

      The difference is the autistic person isn’t completely sycophantic and might be completely disgusted that you don’t know the first production date of the C40-8W.

    • MDCCCLV@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      Using a larger vocabulary doesn’t make you sound like an llm, it’s more about the tone.

  • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3 months

    I knew this was a clickbait when it’s gizmodo, but oof

    The mods in the Wired story explain how they detect AI content, and unfortunately their methods boil down to “It’s vibes.”

    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      Hey man, if the vibes aren’t right, it’s probably AI. Uncanny Valley and shit, bruh. Seems legit.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    So perversely chatbots are increasing people’s vocabulary because people read so few books anymore and most of their word usage comes from what they read online?

    • TheMinister@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 months

      What’s more than that, chatbots use those words because writers use those words. That’s journalist vocab. And bots were trained on articles and written speech. I think you’re right, people just weren’t reading anything.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      That’s kinda how I took it. Be funny if language evolved back into flowery Victorian speech.

    • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      I’m one of those deranged few who actually used em dashes in my normal typing habits. Not super often the way LLMs are prone to, maybe once a month tops. Alt+0151 or Compose, dash, dash, dash.

      Now a find myself reluctant to use what I felt was a useful bit of punctuation out of concern people might think what I’m typing was LLM generated. It sucks.

      • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
        3 months

        I always just used – instead, because I’m too lazy to remember weird codes and I don’t know what a compose key is, but the intent is the same.

        Edit: oh and I forgot lemmy does weird stuff with em-dash too, what I originally wrote there was hyphen-hyphen

    • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      I always liked the dramatic…

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      …pause.

      I’ve never used em-dashes to represent them. Am I doing it wrong?

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      People have been speaking with punctuation since language was invented. If you only now realize that pause is an em-dash, that’s on your schooling. :-p

  • dukemirage@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
    3 months

    If a development leads to the downfall of r/AmITheAsshole, I’m all for it.

      • dukemirage@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
        3 months

        It’s a subreddit mentioned in the article that is mostly used to claim moral superiority by constructing ridiculous fake stories. Its mods claim that they are starting to have trouble to distinguish genuine from generated responses, but this sub always sounded like one giant moralistic hivemind.

        And just to be sure: It was a joke.

  • jobbies@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3 months

    Right, thats it. Switch it all off. Burn it down. Right now.

  • hedge_lord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    What logically follows is that I need to be as weird and eccentric as possible in order to counteract the memetic contagion of a lovecraftian averaging machine. I bet I could make a cult out of this!

    • Robaque@feddit.itEnglish
      3 months

      It’s a catch-22 - try to be more unique, in an effort not to lose your humanity, but in doing so keep feeding the machine which subsists on creativity. A human-AI ouroboros.

  • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
    3 months

    I have found myself saying this phrase to people recently:

    “Summarize what you just said in a single sentence.”

    And so far, everybody has done it.

  • dontsayaword@piefed.socialEnglish
    3 months

    I bet this is true but also that a lot of the “human” sources they reviewed were actually written by LLMs anyway, not humans. This is reddit we’re taking about.

  • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3 months

    If AI is modeled after intellectuals, there will inevitably be a swath of non-intellectuals who conclude the post title… because the idea of intellectuals predating AI is unthinkable to them.

    • ragepaw@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      I used an AI to analyze a piece of writing I did years ago, long before AI was a thing. It determined that there was some huge margin of my work was likely written by AI, and when I asked why, it stated by use of sentence structure, words spelt using British spellings, oxford commas, and emdashes indicated I was AI — which I am not.

  • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
    3 months

    Hahaha, now even the source of new data is starting to be poisoned by LLMs…good luck trying to outproduce LLM slop to train LLMs…and ending up with goop real fast.