I'm not changing my writing style, dumbing down my vocabulary, or avoiding the punctuation that do exactly what I need, just because of goddamned gen AI suspicions.
I've never used ChatGPT. If your use of it is making you paranoid, that's a you problem. Or rather, a "you using ChatGPT" problem. Stop using it.
"I saw a lecturer share an email a student sent, claiming it was AI.
When people commented saying it didn't look like ai, pointing out the imperfect sentence structure and wording, OP said, "they ask ai to write it like that so it doesn't sound like ai."
And I just sat there thinking, when is this going to end? We're at a point where people are claiming a sign of ai is not sounding like ai at all.
I understand why people are suspicious around people using ai, and I hate that it's infiltrating creative fields, but I think some of us are going way too far with our suspicions and accusations.
Every time I instinctively go to write three short sentences building on or re-enforcing each other, or use an Oxford comma, or em-dash or en-dash, or semi colon, or an uncommon word, or a very common word, or contrast ideas, or repeat for emphasis, or write a rheotical question, or answer a rhetorical question, or use dot points, I get worried because they're all "tells".
LLM were trained off real peoples' writing, that's how they exist. I don't understand why we are constantly trying to insist that normal writing conventions MUST be ai. AI uses them because it was exposed to them because they were frequently used.
