The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video]

Re:The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video] by specproc on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:29AM (#43267852)

100%. I had my first obviously AI-written email the other day, and that was one of the clear tells.

I was trying to figure out what made it so obvious, the dashes were one thing, the other things I noticed were:

- Bits of the text were in bold.

- The tone was horrible, very cringe. Full of superlatives, adjectives and cliches.

- I live somewhere where English is the third language, most people don't write emails in English without a few spelling or grammar mistakes.

- Nor do they write in paragraphs.

- It's also pretty unusual to get a quick reply.

Lots of these things are positive, I guess. I'm glad folks are finding it easier to communicate quickly and relatively effectively across languages, but it did kinda make me never want to do business with them again.

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Re:The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video] by SecretDreams on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:32AM (#43267896)

Bold text is a give away. I'm sad about the hyphens because I use them in my normal typing :(.

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Re:The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video] by ndiddy on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:02AM (#43268370)

> The tone was horrible, very cringe. Full of superlatives, adjectives and cliches.

I wonder how much of this is caused by the AI companies using Reddit as a major training source.

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Re:The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video] by butlike on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:01AM (#43268362)

If you can clearly read it in your head in that new sassy GPT voice, it's probably LLM

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Re:The INTERNET is killing old PC hardware [video] by Taylor_OD on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:20AM (#43268641)

This also just sounds like the average sales email haha.

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