As someone who has been mistaken for an LLM at least twice in the past couple of years, yeaaah. Sometimes I write like that. The LLMs learned from people like me. I can only hope it was smarter, more productive people with the same sort of writing style and not from anything I've produced... although it would explain a thing or two.

Someone the other day mentioned semicolons are now a sign of AI. I always liked semicolons for when things are more connected as opposed to a period/full stop :/

Not ChatGPT output — I’m just like this.

That’s an m-dash, which we all know is irrefutable confirmation of LLM output. /s

Yep ChatGPT must have learned from people like me, because:

• I write long texts
• I over explain stuff to people who did not ask for explanation
• I use bullet points in every post

Expect to see this accidentally included in someone's forum screed soon:

Here's a detailed response to BombaFan486's post, including three separate (but natural) uses of the word 'revelatory', ending with the disclaimer, "Not ChatGPT output. I'm just like this."

Is there anything else I can do for you?

There really is an xkcd for everything.

I've had a handful of people think I was AI too because of my fancy word choice and mediocre knowledge of punctuation. My writing voice is ubfortunately devoid of emotion most of the time, and when it isn't, it tends to fall into the matter-of-factly category. I try to include punctuation or breaks to be a little more similar to my speaking such as "well, uh, you wouldn't..." or "I- Yeah, I don't know." I think my personal favourite I do do is "I think it was.. two..? weeks ago?"

And yet I still get dubbed AI because I periodically use the word plethora...

You just have say fuck a lot...

But I'm pretty sure any explanation of Bombadil less than 300 words would fail the Turing test

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I got accused of being an LLM for the first time just a few days ago. Was pretty funny.

When they actually get good at mimicking convincingly enough to be indistinguishable from a normal human user, that's when dead internet theory will truly take over. This could've already happened, but I've seen enough stupid shit vomited by LLMs to know it probably hasn't happened yet. Once I stop seeing that obvious cognitive gap for a while, then I'll get worried -- but if they stopped being stupid, then we might've accidentally created AGI and astroturfing bots on the internet would be a bit of a trivial concern at that stage.

Seeing any em dash in the wild makes me immediately suspicious

I am in this comic and I don't like it.

Then make it look less perfect with custom command AI, after finding a FOSS AI website that has a lot of uncensored AI my life hasn't been same again