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For the record, I am not an AI.
I was ambivalent about it. The way the arguments are presented don't read as much like AI.
Perhaps it was indeed just for proofreading. Although I know that MS Word turns single dashes into em-dash. Maybe they used Word when writing the thing?
It's one of the reasons I am sort of abandoning dashes when writing and using instead semicolons.
Oh for fuck’s sake. Can we please stop with this nonsense? You must think my blog is LLM-generated too.
I’m so tired of the illiterate denying the humanity of the literate. How do you think LLMs were trained? On human writing.
I have no idea what your long form writing looks like. But can you look at something like this https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/if-you-recognize-me-in-pu... and seriously come out of it not thinking it's AI slop?
> The version of me you know — the writer, the ranter, the one who tears into accessibility failures or rips Linux a new one — that’s a persona.
> Not fake. Not dishonest. Just deliberate. It’s tuned for the internet, built to survive in a world that eats subtlety alive. It’s the volume turned up, the emotion sharpened, the thoughts sculpted until they’re worth reading.
Or perhaps the radically different stylistic decision of using emojis and using italics and boldface for emphasis in this older blog https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/hellcaptcha-accessibility... could be more convincing?
But it’s not justification. You made your argument worse, not better, by citing em dashes and quotes.
Wikipedia uses these, among other characteristics, as potential signs of AI writing: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:AICURLY https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:AIDASH
From the same article:
“Do not rely too much on your own judgment.”
“human editors and writers often use em dashes”
It is obviously impossible to be able to tell with 100% certainty whether or not something is written using AI. But I think this most likely is. Could be that it's just copy edited with AI and not wholly AI slop. Who knows. Either way, it reads very much like AI to me.