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That ship has sailed. Along with the good ship capital letters at the beginning of sentences.

It's a GenAI subculture signifier. Utterly tiresome; HN and the tech web is riddled with it.

> It's a GenAI subculture signifier

Presumably, the point is to be a "written by a human" signifier

The signifier is to sound and write like Sam Altman, I think. It's perfectly possible to write in a style that doesn't sound like ChatGPT, which has the tone of a collection of college admissions essays written by perky, shallow people with no life experience.

I don't think that's really true. ChatGPT has a fairly neutral style of writing. It may vary a bit on the prompt I guess.

It really does not. It has a noticeable style and affect/manner.

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