LLMs had to learn from somewhere, a lot of internet comments write Like That

But maybe less and less will, if all it gets them nowdays are accusations of using/being an LLM.

I've often written lists of bullet points with bolded headings and nowadays every time I do I feel I have to say that it's not written by chatgpt

And, "I'm not a cat."

(Except sometimes maybe as a NPC)

Just wait until your LLM starts accusing you of being an LLM

It's very jarring when you see it nowadays, and rather unfortunate for people who have that style of writing.

I just Write Like That. It always takes me longer to write things than intended because I tend to overthink things, too. :/

It was a good comment!

For what it's worth: having seen that someone else suspected ChatGPT usage, and reading it again, I can understand what sorts of heuristics it might have tripped. But on overall intuition, I didn't get that impression on a first read.

If LLMs had the necessary theory of mind to model context well enough to write the comment in question the world would be a very different place. Writing style and fitting in to the context are entirely different things.

LLM responses tend to give me the vibe of a disengaged office worker who isn't emotionally present and lacks a proper mental model of the topic. It's been shocking to me to witness how frequently people around me IRL fail to notice such writing.

> Writing style and fitting in to the context are entirely different things.

Absolutely — which goes a long way towards how I make the judgment myself, now that you say it. Although it's still hard to be precise about.

(One positive impact that LLMs indirectly had on my life is that they motivated me to look up ways to type em-dashes more easily. I now have my caps lock key mapped as a compose key, and a custom compose-key mapping for it.)

> It's been shocking to me to witness how frequently people around me IRL fail to notice such writing.

To notice, they'd have to themselves be engaged, I suppose. Or at least have some idea about the subject matter.

It does read very chatgpt-y

ChatGPT was sticky for me very early because its writing style reminded me of my own ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Welcome to the erosion of trust we are seeing live. Soon we won't trust anything outside of a speaker we can touch physically.