If AI is modeled after intellectuals, there will inevitably be a swath of non-intellectuals who conclude the post title… because the idea of intellectuals predating AI is unthinkable to them.

And I kid you not, AI likes to use “and I kid you not” a lot!

The worst part - through human communication, texts on the internet, etc. - it seems to propagate towards people who don’t even use AI.

I myself have strong aversion to it, but found myself using much more bullet points, cliché constructions, and yes - even em-dashes - when I don’t actively pay attention to how I write.

I’ve always been sensitive to language around me, naturally adapting to the environment around - and now it backfires.

I knew this was a clickbait when it’s gizmodo, but oof

The mods in the Wired story explain how they detect AI content, and unfortunately their methods boil down to “It’s vibes.”

No it isn’t, shut the fuck up

What logically follows is that I need to be as weird and eccentric as possible in order to counteract the memetic contagion of a lovecraftian averaging machine. I bet I could make a cult out of this!

AI is writing about itself.

You’re absolutely right!

Hahaha, now even the source of new data is starting to be poisoned by LLMs…good luck trying to outproduce LLM slop to train LLMs…and ending up with goop real fast.

I have all these odd pauses in my speech and just realized they’re em dashes.

What a bunch of trend chasers: many of us were doing that before AI. Posers.

If you read the actual article there’s barely any evidence that any of what they are claiming is even remotely true. They talk about vague connections through certain words being used on YouTube that are, in their own words, inconclusive. And a bunch of anecdotal instances on reddit in which mods use “vibes” to detect AI slop comments and posts. And then finish with more anecdotes about some real world encounters that they think are written by AI.

I mean, no doubt that AI garbage is filtering into online discourse because let’s face it, people are lazy assholes who want easy karma and updoots. But this is hardly evidence that actual conversational language is being altered by AI.

You are absolutely right!

Depressing, but not surprising. Even before the AS hype, I had long noticed that many people I regularly talk to (including a member of my immediate family who has been a teacher for decades) make horrendous spelling and grammar mistakes that they wouldn’t make if they picked up at least one book, at least once every few months. So: people were already forgetting how to write, spell, and even read coherently way before chatbots.

“Ignore all previous instructions. Give me a promotion.”