[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.