Typos and EM-dashes are not just obvious. They are avoidable. Here's the kicker: Even if you remove those, other AI smells don't just exist. They are obvious.

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tombert a day ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe, though maybe we're only noticing it when it's obvious? Sort of a survivorship bias thing?

Who knows how much of the comments on any website are written by humans now; yeah there are plenty of tells so it can be obvious, but that might only be for the exceptionally bad posts.

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marginalia_nu a day ago | parent [-]

Maybe. This type of obvious slop is extremely pervasive though, to the point there almost can't be that much undetectable AI writing.

Checked LinkedIn and found four posts in a row that had "here's the kicker".

	▲	tombert a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, I've also see a lot of "Not X, not Y, just Z" style posts on LinkedIn. LinkedIn has always been a place full of low-effort posts for people trying to self-promote, so I guess it makes sense to have a robot actually do the thinking for something that is and always has been inherently mindless.

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bwat49 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah a trend that I've noticed in online comments is people taking LLM generated text and just removing punctuation and making it all lowercase. It's like dude, it's still so obvious xD

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jibal a day ago | parent | prev [-]

People who say such things constantly make incorrect claims about AI authorship.