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It's hard for me to trust this PDF when there's literally a typo directly under the author's name: "analyitcs"

At the same tiem, lately I've been inserting small typos in my writing just to signal that it's not LLM generated. Nothing is a bigger red flag than a wall of text with perfect grammar and punctuation.

> Nothing is a bigger red flag than a wall of text with perfect grammar and punctuation.

So you're choosing to punish well-written text?

It statrs with "At the same tiem" so it's consistent.

Typo-free text. Typo-free text used to more be likely to also be well-written, but now it’s likely not to be.

But also, obviously, they’re being a gadfly for funsies.

This reduces your credibility. If I was reading, I wouldn’t think “not llm,” I’d think “not detail oriented.” You may want to find some better way that doesn’t make people think less of you.

Perfect grammar and punctuation is par for any publication.

There's Goldilocks zone for resumes where you want enough buzzwords to get past the recruiter but not so many that Hiring manager would reject you.

I know what gp is saying. They want to stay credible to the general public without also bearing the over-polished and verbose hallmark of LLM.

I don't expect perfect grammar or punctuation. I expect it look like it went through traditional spellchecker. And maybe grammarchecker.

I really don’t think you should do this. It just makes you look dumb, not authentic. There is a lot more to LLM writing than perfect grammar and punctuation that gives it away.

Lol, LLMs do some thing better, and some things worse than humans. And you're showing your humanity by purposefully being worse at LLM qualities, instead of beign good at human qualities?

It's literally virtue signalling (Human> AI)

>you're showing your humanity by purposefully being worse at LLM qualities, instead of beign good at human qualities?

If you have better ways to highlight human qualities in a text only medium, I'd love to hear it. The last 30 years of internet has shown we always had problems with such communication, let alone the last few years LLM generated responses

It's hard for me to trust it when https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Aderholt is the chairman.

typos mean its more likely to have been made by a human.

typos mean it's more likely to have been made by a careless human.

Certainly. But in the current social environment, being seen as (mildly) careless is less bad than being seen as someone who lets an LLM write prose for them.

That's kind of sad. I miss being an OG em dash user.

i make typos constantly (seriously, check my post history). i probably have typos in my resume. i just dont know why anybody should care.

the meaning is still easily parseable. i cant imagine letting something so superficial matter

I make typos all the time as well, on stuff I am just writing off the cuff like a forum or chat message. But when it comes to something important, don't you check it over dozens of times? hundreds of times? A mere missing semicolon will make your code not compile. How could you let a superficial typo go uncorrected once you see it? How could you not see it when it's in the most obvious spot?

It suggests a certain lack of diligence; like you didn't proofread your work. What about the person that should have proofread it as a second opinion? Did this really follow a rigorous academic process at all? <- That's the first impression when the presentation is sloppy.

It's hard for me to trust anyone that whines on a forum about pedantics.

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