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by TylerE 1012 days ago
If you don't see this as AI generated... I dunno what to tell you. It was pasted right out ChatGPT.. the short paragraphs, passive phrasing, and tone - lots of wiggle phrases like "But not many know about this solution." "Nevertheless, I was surprised to see how many reviewers mentioned in the comments how much storage and time they saved! Some reviews even mention the actual numbers the app gave them." "

Lots of words to say nothing of substance.

If it reads like a bad high school essay - it's ChatGPT!

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ChatGPT didn't learn how to write in that way due to its own efforts. It had to be trained on a mountain of blogspam, which is written in the exact same way.

All ChatGPT does better is produce blogspam with more consistent grammar, and over a wider range of topics than any single person could quickly understand.

>If it reads like a bad high school essay - it's ChatGPT!

The useful part about the "If it's vapid then it's probably an LLM" test is that even if it ISN'T an LLM, it's still vapid and bad in the same way, and basically needs the same solution:

Folks, if you want to write, take writing classes somewhere.