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by redanddead 37 days ago
Very nice poem from a local:

  On windswept shores where oceans foam,
  Far from the bustle and noise of home,
  The island watched the grey skies part,
  With hope returning to every heart.

  Across the vastness the RAF flew through,
  With medicine, medics, and military too,
  Parachuting in with skill and courage on our shore,
  The impossible was accomplished to the core.

  Tristan da Cunha, proud and small,
  A community who always stand together through it all,
  Neighbours helping each other, such an amazing sight,
  Hoping everything done before the loss of daylight.
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It is not 'very nice'; it's often generic and lacking in any insight or striking imagery, the meter is ragged and inconsistent while the rhymes are often padding or outright slant (through/too, shore/core?). But I will grant it this: despite the AABB quatrain meter making it look exactly like AI slop, the flaws and errors show that it's probably genuinely amateur-written (as does a '100% human' rating in Pangram).
There's a certain irony in that moving forward we're going to have to be 'imperfect' to appear as not being AI.

Spelling mistkaes, shit grammar, typos, et,c, just leeet em rock.

Nah, if the meta shifts too far, people will just prompt for lower quality like errors, the same way that if Pangram use gets too widespread, people will just start using anti-Pangram prompts and rewrite services. And since people largely don't notice or care, even here, that meta shift is going to take a long time.