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  • Funny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world•The american gift economy - Nevermind, this is AI slop. byJordan117@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 days

    Idk why you’re getting so offended. I never implied you or anyone here was AI, just the Twitter post in the screenshot.

    I also said the techniques mentioned are legit and common. I’m even guilty of some AI favorites myself (em dashes, false ranges, etc.). That’s kind of the point – AI is trained to emulate human language.

    The thing is, they’re also heavily post-trained to reward “interesting” or faux-profound rhetorical tricks that impress human graders. This encourages them to overuse such techniques, even when they don’t make much sense. It’s like those old Cola Wars taste tests where people preferred a sip of Pepsi because it tasted sweeter on the spot, but it becomes cloying and saccharine over a whole can. Default AI prose reads like it’s trying to twist every single sentence into some kind of surprise or artful flourish, and usually the same few kinds over and over and over again. Seeing those well-worn patterns, combined with the pretty questionable understanding of normal human behavior, makes it pretty clear what’s going on.

    FWIW, your comments don’t read like AI at all. I do agree there’s a frustrating epidemic of such accusations, especially from people who don’t understand good writing lobbing it at people who are capable of putting more than one clause in a sentence. But I’m being sincere when I say that this has very specific and characteristic traits of a particular AI model that I’ve seen a lot, not just “it’s long and well-written so it MUST be fake.”

  • Funny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world•The american gift economy - Nevermind, this is AI slop. byJordan117@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 days

    Yes it does, and there’s no need to be a dick about it.

    The story itself is just off. It’s not how anybody acts or talks in real life. America is not a gift economy where strangers gladly spend time and effort and gas moving furniture and heavy appliances for a few slices of pizza (and laughingly refuse payment). Ain’t nobody got time for that. Struggling to guilt friends into doing that kind of grunt work for pizza has been a cringe humor trope forever.

    The short staccato sentences. The constant anaphora (repeating “Kevin” or “Tony” half a dozen times in a few short paragraphs).

    The overly dramatic ALL CAPS PRONOUNCEMENTS.

    The oddly-specific numbers (“fifteen mile radius”, “eleven minutes”)

    The expected not X, but Y constructions and reversals (“which felt rehearsed and was not”)

    Weird serious emphasis on unremarkable things nobody would care about (sitting on the couch first, the daughter being aggressive)

    Why would a man you’ve never met ask you if you could help them move?

    Etc.

    These are all legitimate rhetorical tricks, but the way it’s laid on so thickly and uncannily in short punchy sentences screams AI, specifically Claude’s particular style of prose.

    Also, GPTZero and Pangram both say it’s 100% AI generated.

    Also, they’ve literally said: “I’m simply a Japanese creator who writes in Japanese, uses translation tools and AI as creative tools, and tries to tell funny stories.”