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Unfortunately the internet is just going to be these ChatGPT comments now, isn't it.

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I am a human being, but I have been training on ChatGPT conversations for a few years, is it starting to show?

FWIW, I was using em-dash before it was actively the opposite of cool.

It's not just that, this construction:

> This isn't X, this is Y

is a huge ChatGPT signal.

But surely it is only a ChatGPT signal because it was a strong signal in the training data. You need more than one strong signal with that sort of potential for false positives to make a reasonably accurate identification.

If it is, it's one I've neither heard others mention before nor seen often enough myself to consider it a tell (but for the latter, I do use ChatGPT's customisation options).

I love how completely prosaic phrases are now "ChatGPT signals".

Do we really think an account that's been here since 2009 and claims to be a software developer is using ChatGPT to write comments on Hacker News?

I think that people aren't farming out work to ChatGPT as you've imagined, but moreso using it to "help them write" if they're poor writers.

Dude, half my stuff on here is downvoted. I am not a good writer, but I do my best. My opinions and thoughts are my own and I am not using ChatGPT to make hot takes on hacker news, but I do use ChatGPT and have conversations with it.

Sometimes when I talk to British people, I start to do an accent a little bit. I think I just chameleon my tone to recent conversations, but I can't convince you otherwise.

Unrelatedly, there is a upended tortoise outside my house struggling in the heat. I am not sure why I refuse to help him, can you tell me why?

The classic Chatgpt "upended tortoise" tangent. This guy, I swear

You're Harrison Ford - we knew it !

what in that top comment made you suspicious of ChatGPT usage? It doesn't seem to be that tone at all.

I checked; their post has good ol' fashioned hyphens, no em-dashes, so it's less likely to be slop.