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I don’t know anything about the subject area, so I don’t know if this captures enough to get a good grade. But I’m curious if anyone could tell whether the last answer were AI generated if I copied and pasted. These are the iterations I go through when writing long requirement documents/assessments/statements of work (consulting).

Yes I know the subject area for which I write assessments and know if what is generated is factually correct. If I’m not sure, I ask for web references using the web search tool.

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To me, this part

> I didn’t realize how much that could throw things off until I saw an example where the object started moving in a strange way when it hit that point.

Would feel off, because why change the person? And even if it's intented, then I'd say it's not formal to do in an assignement.

These are art students not English writers. If I were a teacher I would think this is more authentic. LLMs don’t make this kind of mistake in its default house style.

Hmm, fair enough.

Also the point about default LLM settings not doing that is a good point.

I mean this is not blind obviously, but it feels unnaturally enthusiastic/conversational to me. Maybe for like an video script it would fit, but for a requirements document or something it is a little oddly 'sauced up', as if someone put an extra pass through it to try to make it entertaining to read.

I was trying to make it sound like a college student with no strong writing experience.

I use to work at AWS (Professional Services) and there are a few different writing styles depending on what your audience was. I learned how to write in the different “house styles” before LLMs were a thing. So I know when something doesn’t sound right.

I use LLMs all of the time to write. I’m 99% certain that no one can tell the difference between my writing 100% without an LLM to my writing with one

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