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by jdkee 38 days ago
Was this article written by AI?
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I'd bet a lot of money on AI at least having a substantial influence on the phrasing.
bidirectional inverted commas, negative parallelism, short punchy prose, dot point listing ... these language techniques are consistently present throughout. whether this article was written by AI or not, its structure and style utterly screams of AI.
But which was the first, the chicken or the egg?

The LLMs have been trained on soulless corporate speak.

it is understood that LLM style is derived from human style, and that LLM style is now influencing human style. this doesnt make it any more obvious how to type an em dash or bidirectional inverted comma. nobody outside of academia or publishing uses these techniques of their own accord, only LLMs do. thusly i optimize out your chicken/egg conditional as it seems like a redundant branch - if something looks like AI, it's probably AI, so why does it matter what the AI was trained on?
Because it means there are people who write like that of their own accord. Somewhere, out there...