[alexkrkn]

I wrote a blog post and submitted it to HN yesterday. At first the upvotes were coming in quickly and it even got to the front page, but then some comments started saying that it's '100% written by AI' and it ended up being flagged. I wrote the entire thing with no use of AI, and only used chatgpt to proofread it.

I think it's amusing how people are paranoid about wasting time reading something that was generated by AI, and I can relate to it. But it was strange seeing how sure some people were that it was written by AI, when in fact it wasn't.

Here's the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37480763

[iamflimflam1]

It really does feel written by AI - a telltale phrases that jump out “Let’s analyse how…”

If you’ve used ChatGPT at all you’ll have seen this “Let’s…” text a lot.

[alexkrkn]

I think ChatGPT uses it a lot because it was trained on articles that use it, just because it's a common phrase, no?. It's actually something I started saying while recording screencasts, so it just became a phrase I use often.

I think you're right, it does sound "artificial", I should avoid using it.

In the comments of my original post someone also mentioned: "These days, I personally find articles with minor grammatical errors more interesting than AI assisted/enhanced/corrected content, because AI generated content often comes off bland and loses the rawness of author's intentions.".

I agree with your points, it's amusing though that we need to adjust the way we naturally speak and keep some errors, to not appear as AI.

[Kerb_]

I've got a reddit history a decade back with "however", "likewise", "it's important to consider/remember". I have no doubt if I re-posted/commented some of my posts, I would be accused of being an AI. I think some of us just write in a way that people will assume is robotic, especially when given a chance to revise our works for efficient communication.

[Quinzel]

I agree with you. I have often made use of quite generic sentence structures and words such as “Therefore”, “However”, “Henceforth” etc… particularly in my academic writing. Additionally, I find that a challenge that I have is that with my studies there is high value placed on conciseness. So unlike informal writing where I can be excessively wordy, and abuse commas, when I write for academic purposes, I generally edit obsessively to get rid of excessive wordiness and grammar issues (eg, instead of saying “in order to” I will write “to”).

Something I also noted since ChatGPT was released, however, was when I first played around with it, I did think it had some interesting ways of stringing some sentences together, and used words I wouldn’t have typically used in my own writing - but I’ve since stolen some of its use of words and copied its pattern of stringing some words together, and written them in my own writing - as if the chatbot impacted on my personal writing style - but I don’t actually use AI to generate ideas, write content or edit my actual writing.

It makes me wonder - will AI also influence human writing patterns/styles and therefore make it more difficult to distinguish between humans and AI generated texts.

It’s a shit time to be studying at uni, I’ve gotta say.