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Thank you for your well written response. I found it informative as I'm also currently exploring ways to leverage ChatGPT in my daily workflow. I also found it interesting that your answer kind of mirrors the writing style of ChatGPT, especially at the end there.

I'm not saying you used it to write that response by the way, just that it may become more and more common for people to adopt this style the more ChatGPT's usage is widespread.

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I suppose it was part of the "joke", but YOUR answer is the one written in ChatGPT style, not OP.

I was thinking that maybe in the near future it will be "better" to write with a couple of mistakes here and there just to prove your humanity. Like the common "loose" instead of "lose" mistake, it will be like a stamp proving that you are a human writing.

I love this thought. Smart people will just instruct ChatGPT to make some mistakes here and there in their prompt. When I use ChatGPT I typically use a couple sentences describing how I want it to sound, which makes it less bland and probably harder to detect, but I don’t care about the latter part as much. Totally agree that the poster above seems Kaufmanesque.

I was just thinking this morning about how one day, probably soon, we’ll have people reminiscing about how they miss seeing typos in writing.

I do that when I write grants for my sports club and it seems to get better results than peers that hire pros to apply for them.

You joke, but I hope this doesn’t come to pass. The world does not need more people writing “noone” instead of “no one”, “would of” instead of “would have”, etc.

The idea that computers could return wrong answers to appear human, is as old as the Turing Test.

Maybe this is somehow underlyingly correlated with Spammers writting purposefully in wrong English

You probably mean scammers. As I remember it, in that case the scammers pretend to have their responders to self select for gullabilit.

Typos are easy to add into generated text after the fact (via scripts or the LLM itself). Perhaps instead of typos, you could use colorful language:

Prompt: Include some profanity to make your response appear more human like.

Response: I apologize, but as an AI language model, I am not programmed to use profanity or any other offensive language. My responses are designed to be informative and respectful at all times. Is there anything else I can assist you with?

Fucking goddamn machine won't do what it's told ;)

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