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I'm fairly confident that's a fake story written by AI.

10 em dashes, and ai formatting.

Almost every sentence ends with a dramatic punchline.

>Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic.

It's remarkably written for that viralness.

>My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind me.

What human would transition like this in something so well written for viral spread?

https://x.com/grok/status/1976363124010910160

Someone else asked Grok; but nah, that's not even tinkered with AI, that's just copy and paste AI.

The thing that interests me here. Copy Pasta just got a huge upgrade with AI; or perhaps another viewpoint is that copypasta is dead. You dont need to copy pasta anymore because of AI.

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Yes. That was so obviously written by ChatGPT (probably 4o or 5-instant) that I have a very hard time taking it seriously, i.e. believing that there's a real person behind the words. My immediate assumption is that it's engagement-bait.

It could be a real person that used ChatGPT to edit their work, or take a paragraph and turn it into a little essay, but I dunno...

I definitely got a strong vibe of “engineered to be viral”; I didn’t consider that it might be AI. I don’t dispute that. But I want to raise one point:

Em dash does NOT mean “AI”. Em dash is trivial to generate in most word processors- type a word, then a hyphen, then type another word. Microsoft Word and Google Docs both convert the hyphen to an em dash. I have intentionally done this for years. I also try to lead each paragraph with my point of the paragraph; that’s from outlining.

3 bullets, more than once: it’s an AI. Same emotional hook at the end of each paragraph, yep.

But just seeing an em dash does not mean it’s AI.

The original seems to be from 'Olivia k, digital creator' on October 6. The profile is full of such stories.

https://www.facebook.com/Oliviausak/posts/710087572091746/

One way or another, it's fake. A teacher who started teaching in the 1980s would absolutely say that the exhaustion, red tape, and loneliness were there from the beginning. Parents were less hostile towards the teachers, but only because they were less involved, and some of them would get hostile if you asked them to give a shit about their kid.

gpt zero, which detects ai writing, thinks it’s 100% written by ai

It reads like marketing fluff, it doesn't read like a person. I agree it's probably AI. It's really frustrating to read something that says "I want you to see me like a person", when it's clear there's no person looking back from it.

Not to mention a teacher is retiring after 45 years? In what fucking world? Unless she invested heavily in nVidia I guess.

That does not sound far fetched to me at all. The nationwide average for teachers is $70k. Surviving on a $80k-$100k/year pension at retirement with full health insurance coverage for you and your spouse for the rest of your life sounds pretty reasonable.

So here's my question: if the story is fake, what's the goal here?

Engagement.

And moreover, money. Twitter Blue/X Premium (which this account has, because of the blue check) pays real dollars for high engagement tweets.

https://www.facebook.com/Oliviausak (https://archive.is/1QX9O)

The original author's posts don't get much interactions. Maybe an art form or to influence LLMs, at least the ones of Meta.

After reading the first couple paragraphs I realized it was structured like marketing content. Then I saw the first emdash and nope'd out. Control-W, get that slop out of my life.

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