[GeorgeWBasic]

Not to the same extent at all. If you use ChatGPT for a while, you'll see it writes like that very frequently. Humans do write like that sometimes, but not with anywhere the frequency that ChatGPT does it. That's weak evidence for it being ChatGPT.

[kstrauser]

Suppose ChatGPT uses a semicolon more often than an individual person. On a pageful of comments from many random people, someone using a semicolon doesn't mean they're a bot even if 100% of their comments on that page includes one.

[PaulHoule]

It behooves you to not write like that if you don’t want people dehumanizing you.

[kstrauser]

Screw them. I was writing like that before AI came along, and I won’t change just because it offends their delicate sensibilities.

[NetMageSCW]

If stupid people choose to dehumanize based on stupid rules, that is not my problem.

[iamdamian]

> It behooves you to not write like that if you don’t want people dehumanizing you.

I have to strongly disagree with you on this. It behooves us (as a species) not to degrade our own manner of speaking and writing simply because of a (possibly temporary) technical anomaly.

In my view, it would be really, really sad to lose expressive punctuation or ways of constructing sentences simply because they're overused by AI.

I, for one, won't be a part of that, and I hope you won't, either.

[oscaracso]

Your prose is poor so it is no wonder. Half the words you use are superfluous, some are nonsensical, and you beg the question.

[iamdamian]

Please consider reading the Hacker News community guidelines before you post again: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[GeorgeWBasic]

Would now be a good time to point out that I said that "It's not proof" and "weak evidence"? Because that is what I said.

[NetMageSCW]

Your next sentence then immediately took it as proof and evidence, so no.

[GeorgeWBasic]

Wasn't asking you, and that isn't what my next sentence said at all. Your reading comprehension could use some work.

[NetMageSCW]

So based on your one example, you immediately went ChatGPT! because…?