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by mplanchard 70 days ago
You can also just write it.

I’d much rather read someone’s imperfect writing than the soulless regression-to-the-mean that LLMs produce. If you’re not a native speaker or don’t have confidence in your writing, I’d urge you to first ask for an edit by another human, but if that’s not an option, to be extremely firm in your LLM prompting to just have it fix issues of grammar, spelling, etc.

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"soulless regression-to-the-mean", damn that's quote of the day.
Almost nobody recognises well written AI texts. I've seen plenty of AI written text pass right by people who are sure they can always tell. It takes very little, because the vast majority of AI writing you spot involves people doing nothing to make it clean up the style.
I find it quite funny how this got downvoted. My statement is based on concrete knowledge of a project that tested this, and demonstrated quite conclusively that most people consistently fail to detect AI written text that's gone through even very basic measures to seem more human.
Is it really worth your time to complain about fake internet points on a comment nested 4 deep?