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It really does feel written by AI - a telltale phrases that jump out “Let’s analyse how…”

If you’ve used ChatGPT at all you’ll have seen this “Let’s…” text a lot.

I think ChatGPT uses it a lot because it was trained on articles that use it, just because it's a common phrase, no?. It's actually something I started saying while recording screencasts, so it just became a phrase I use often.

I think you're right, it does sound "artificial", I should avoid using it.

In the comments of my original post someone also mentioned: "These days, I personally find articles with minor grammatical errors more interesting than AI assisted/enhanced/corrected content, because AI generated content often comes off bland and loses the rawness of author's intentions.".

I agree with your points, it's amusing though that we need to adjust the way we naturally speak and keep some errors, to not appear as AI.

I've got a reddit history a decade back with "however", "likewise", "it's important to consider/remember". I have no doubt if I re-posted/commented some of my posts, I would be accused of being an AI. I think some of us just write in a way that people will assume is robotic, especially when given a chance to revise our works for efficient communication.

I agree with you. I have often made use of quite generic sentence structures and words such as “Therefore”, “However”, “Henceforth” etc… particularly in my academic writing. Additionally, I find that a challenge that I have is that with my studies there is high value placed on conciseness. So unlike informal writing where I can be excessively wordy, and abuse commas, when I write for academic purposes, I generally edit obsessively to get rid of excessive wordiness and grammar issues (eg, instead of saying “in order to” I will write “to”).

Something I also noted since ChatGPT was released, however, was when I first played around with it, I did think it had some interesting ways of stringing some sentences together, and used words I wouldn’t have typically used in my own writing - but I’ve since stolen some of its use of words and copied its pattern of stringing some words together, and written them in my own writing - as if the chatbot impacted on my personal writing style - but I don’t actually use AI to generate ideas, write content or edit my actual writing.

It makes me wonder - will AI also influence human writing patterns/styles and therefore make it more difficult to distinguish between humans and AI generated texts.

It’s a shit time to be studying at uni, I’ve gotta say.

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