It’s gracious of you to say that you’d be sorry, and I did run my comment through 4o (perhaps ironically) which caught a slew of typos and weird grammar issues and offered some improvements. But the robotic sound and anything else you don’t like are my own responsibility. Do you, perhaps, have any thoughts on the substance of the comment?

Its because of the em dashes (- is a normal dash, — is an em dash). Very few real people use those outside of writing books or longform articles.

There's also some strange wordings like "back-pocket tests."

It's 100% LLM generated.

What is much scarier is that those "quick reply" blurbs on Android/Gmail (and iOS?) will be able to be trained on your entire e-mail and WhatsApp history. That model will have your writing mannerisms and even be a stochastic mimic of your reasoning. So, you won't be able to even realize a model answered you, not a real person. And the initial message the model is responding to might be written by the other person's personal model.

The future of digital interactions might have some sort of cryptographic signing guaranteeing you're talking to a human being, perhaps even with blocked copy-pasting (or well, that part of the text shows up as unverified) and cheat detection.

Going even a layer deeper / more meta: what does it ultimately matter? We humans yearn for connection, but for some reason that connection only feels genuine with another human. Whereas, what is the difference between a human typing a message to you, a human inhabiting a robot body, a model typing a message to you, and a model inhabiting a robot body, if they can all give you unique interactions?

And this is the reason, I have choose to write grammatically wrong content online. And basic english only, no fancy words.

It may also be deliberate, I know a lot of people that are very dyslexic and are using AI for making themselves understood online.

It's the dashes that make it a dead-giveaway.

“ — “ is the giveaway.

Why sorry? So what?

I often write things I want to post in bullets and then have it formulated better than I could by an LLM. But its just applying a style. The content comes from me.

My wife is dyslexic so she passes most things she writes through ChatGPT. Also not everyone is a native speaker.

TBH I've recently felt like that for ~70% of 'top-level replies' in HN, which has slowly pushed me to other mediums (mastodon and discord).

Could just be that the AI 'boom' brought a less programming-focused crowd into the site and those people lack the vocabulary that is constantly used here, who knows.

I'm a big fan of sprinkling in a little profanity just to pass the LLM bullshit check

That sounds like very evocative prose. Would you be up for sharing some of that fiction? I haven’t tried Grok 3 for that purpose and now I’m curious.