Do we need a term (probably German) for the anxiety that one's work might look like it was generated by machines?

[skry@mastodon.social]

@JulianOliver I have seen typos recently that I wondered about. It wouldn't surprise me if humans added more humanity as a signal of authenticity.

I wonder if something like "shoe on head" video chat authentication will also come back out of necessity.

[themadhatter@mastodon.social]

@JulianOliver this one is not bad either:

[ohir@social.vivaldi.net]

@JulianOliver
> always used the em dash

Yeah – crowds blame humans for using what the #siliconiac had stolen.

@slackline

[jairajdevadiga@mastodon.social]

@woody @JulianOliver So to avoid coming off as AI generated, you put your writing through a chatbot?

[julianoliver@mastodon.social]

@scott Thanks! I will listen to it today.

[julianoliver@mastodon.social]

@jairajdevadiga @woody Admittedly I also find the strategy perplexing.

Bill is your concern that readers might put your text through an 'AI detection' tool and deem it machine made, or that a human might read it and deem it so?

Both?

If more the latter, might not soliciting feedback from people be a more fruitful approach?

If the former, I worry Claude would be so poisoned with bias you may risk giving a genAI stink to the text where it otherwise may have none.

[courtcan@mastodon.social]

@JulianOliver @slackline As a human novelist, I intend to keep using em dashes to my heart's content. I've used them for 30+ years, they have served me well, and I'm not gonna let AI ruin them for me!

[b3lt3r@mastodon.b3lt3r.com]

@JulianOliver you'll have to pry my em dash from my cold dead hands - I love them and cannot imagine writing without them.

[pascal_dher@mstdn.dk]

@JulianOliver like the indians who thought their soul was stolen by the camera taking pictures?

[woody@pleroma.pch.net]

@jairajdevadiga

I asked it to flag things which appeared to it as though it might have been AI-generated. It didn't re-write anything or suggest changes. That would be exactly defeating the purpose.

[jnkrtech@social.treehouse.systems]

@JulianOliver I have seen people accused of using LLMs because they write in all-lowercase. The accuser claimed that this was an attempt to avoid detection for using an LLM by promoting it to write in an unusual style. To someone who’s sufficiently paranoid even writing unlike an LLM is proof of LLM use.

I’ve been accused of using LLMs due to saying that someone was partially correct before disagreeing with the rest of what they said, as well as for using five-syllable words.