I post on Reddit. Someone says itâs AI. I tell them it is not. They say, âsure, buddyâ.
I post on Reddit. âAI slop,â they comment. âand if it isnât, itâs bad, mediocre writing.â
âNo, I am not a bad writer.â I have the audacity to say. âWriting is part of what I do professionally. I get paid to do this.â
Someone else posts on Reddit. A chat from Bumble, where a man has the gall to use the unnatural em-dash. âNo one uses the em-dash,â they say. Itâs a trope at this point, I know. âThe hypen is much more common. I donât know where to even find the em-dash. Plus, he said you were âeliteâ. No one would say that.â
âThe hypen isnât grammatically correct.â I tell them, looking over the chat log. Itâs a real person on the other side, their personality obfuscated by the nerves that come with reaching out on a dating app. Thereâs subtle humor, missing punctuation. Still, 100 people condemn it as AI. Itâs more feasible to them that someone would edit those human elements back in manually than type it themselves.
I post on Reddit. I tell them my writing keeps being called AI slop. They say it is, it is. Use fewer periods. Capitalize less. Ignore the rules. A real person wouldnât write like that. A real person wouldnât use those words, or say it like that. Iâm a real person. I canât prove it to them.
Someone, finally, says that the tone of my post matches how some books are written. That maybe it would be good for those who doubt that the writing is man-made to read more man-made books.
âYou think we donât read?â They ask. Then something more incendiary: âYou think youâre better than us?â
And, hey? Bad news, babes. This isnât hyperbole. This is all real shit that has happened in the last week.
What the fuck is going on???
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