Downvote me if you like, but NONE of my comments are AI-generated. I type them out, by hand, with my thumbs, on my phone. Every single one, goddamnit.
This is one (of many) downsides of AI—people confusing long-form text with machine-generated text.
(And yes, I used an em-dash here. Eat shit.)
I hate this, because my son was also flagged his school’s AI-detection system, even though I 100% know he wrote his essay (I watched him do it). The reasoning? His paper was “well beyond his grade level.” It’s bullshit, and I’m pretty irate about it. I taught him all the paper-composition principles we learned in high school: introduction, body / main thesis (including the rule-of-three [no more than three main bullet points], and Aristotle’s three modes of persuasion), summary, and conclusion. And proper punctuation. Fuck.
So my question to you is this: how does one go about proving a negative? You say I used AI, I say I did not. How can I prove that I didn’t? How could you prove that you didn’t? Yeah, it sucks, man. One thing I actually hate about the advent of LLMs.
Using an AI to write an argument in favor of AI? Please. Debate us like a real human. You’re not a bot. I’m not a bot. Act like it.
Downvote me if you like, but NONE of my comments are AI-generated. I type them out, by hand, with my thumbs, on my phone. Every single one, goddamnit.
This is one (of many) downsides of AI—people confusing long-form text with machine-generated text.
(And yes, I used an em-dash here. Eat shit.)
I hate this, because my son was also flagged his school’s AI-detection system, even though I 100% know he wrote his essay (I watched him do it). The reasoning? His paper was “well beyond his grade level.” It’s bullshit, and I’m pretty irate about it. I taught him all the paper-composition principles we learned in high school: introduction, body / main thesis (including the rule-of-three [no more than three main bullet points], and Aristotle’s three modes of persuasion), summary, and conclusion. And proper punctuation. Fuck.
So my question to you is this: how does one go about proving a negative? You say I used AI, I say I did not. How can I prove that I didn’t? How could you prove that you didn’t? Yeah, it sucks, man. One thing I actually hate about the advent of LLMs.
I didn’t use AI to write that.
In fact, I don’t use AI for writing at all. I use it in the ways described above.
Also, I use bullet points in my writing. I’ve done this for many years. And I am not going to stop. It adds clarity.
I use italics for emphasis. I’m not going to stop doing that, either.
Nor will I stop using the em-dash.
Just because LLMs are trained to mimic good writing style, doesn’t mean we should stop using these style principles ourselves.