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It's not entirely clear to me how this would work though. Right now we don't have AI-powered reporters scouring the streets for articles to write about - we have humans who write articles about things that humans would find interesting.

If people move to reading their news through AI aggregators rather than reading articles written by humans, why would humans keep writing articles? It takes time and it costs money.

It's the same with AI code-generation based largely on programming blog posts and stack overflow questions. A lot of the blog posts will stop being written if people move to using AI models instead of reading blogs.

It might interest you to know that I'm working on something along these lines for Emergent Mind: giving readers the ability to adjust the writing style with the click of a button. Explain it normally, like you're 5, like you're a valley girl, like you have Tourette Syndrome, etc.

Shared a proof of concept on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/mhmazur/status/1641068505784107009

I would avoid styles that mock the disabled. It is not a good look.

I hadn't considered that with Tourette Syndrome. I won't add it as one of the writing styles. Thank you for pointing it out.

feels like a GPT written comment

It's disheartening to see that people have grown increasingly paranoid about the authenticity of online content, suspecting that everything might be written by AI. This is just how I write!

It's not that people suspect everything might be written by an AI, but that your comment pattern matches many of the qualities of AI-generated writing. It's overly verbose, reads like the introduction of a low-quality blog article, includes information a human would assume people reading this thread already know, and uses the same sentence transitions and structures we see frequently in last generation's AI output. If you really do write like that—which I doubt—you should maybe get GTP-4 to help; you'd sound more human.

This also seems like it was generated by an LLM, hah.

Was this comment written by an LLM?

Yea, kinda suspicious, also asked chatGPT about it:

"Based on the text alone, it is difficult to determine with certainty whether it was written by a language model or a human. However, the text does not contain any errors or inconsistencies that would suggest it was written by a human, and the language used is somewhat formal and technical. Therefore, there is a possibility that the text was written by a language model."

... and the accounts other comments are also in the similar "somewhat formal" style.

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