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0 pointsrdtsc5mo ago0 comments

> This article is so incredibly interesting, but I can’t shake the feeling it was written by AI. The writing style has all the telltale signs.

The sadder realization is that after enough AI slop around, real people will start talking like AI. This will just become the new standard communication style.

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csin5mo ago

Chatgpt is just an aggregate of how the terminally online, talk, when they have to act professional.

Chatgpt is hardcoded to not be rude (or German <-- this is a joke).

So when you say, "people will start talking like AI". They are already doing that in professional settings. They are the training data.

As someone who writes with swear words and personality. I think this era is amazing for me. Before, I was seen as rude and unprofessional. Now, I feel like I have a leg up, over all this AI slop.

Authenticity is valued now. Swearing is in vogue.

rdtscOP5mo ago

> They are already doing that in professional settings. They are the training data.

It's a self-reinforcing cycle. AI sucks up and barfs back up the same bland style and eventually books, articles, news will all look even more bland and sound more AI like. That junk then will be sucked up by the next AI model, and regurgitate into some even more bland uniform format. If that's all the new generation hears and sees, that's how they'll perceive one should "talk" or "write".

> Authenticity is valued now. Swearing is in vogue.

Ha! That's a good point, I like that. Not that swearing is my style (unless I stub my toe), but I agree with the general authenticity point. Maybe until the interns at Google and OpenAI will figure out how to make their LLM sounds more "hip" and "authentic".

andy995mo ago

Even now, I think many people are not literate enough to see that it’s bad, and in fact think it improves their writing (beyond just adding volume).

Maybe that’s a good thing? It’s given a whole group of people who otherwise couldn’t write a voice (that of a contract African data labeller). Personally I still think it’s slop, but maybe in fact it is a kind of communication revolution? Same way writing used to only be the province of the elite?

zahlman5mo ago

If they aren't literate enough to see that it's bad, then it probably actually is an improvement over their own writing.

wizzwizz45mo ago

Except, the interface to ChatGPT is writing! People who can't write can't use ChatGPT: if you can use ChatGPT, then you can write. (You might lack confidence, but you can write.)

People who cannot write who try to use ChatGPT are not given a voice. They're given the illusion of having written something, but the reader isn't given an understanding of the ChatGPT-wielder's intent.

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