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Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by Someone1234 on Saturday March 07, 2026 @04:30PM
(#47291655)
No, I do not post a lot about AI. I am talking about normal social media comments on various topics. Perhaps your writing style doesn't lend itself to such accusations.
Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by heddycrow on Saturday March 07, 2026 @03:19PM
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Here's one vote for just be the witch if that's what people need from you.
Just make it be what you want to say and how you want to say it. And when they come after you, shame them to the best of your ability or treat them like they are not there.
Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by mitthrowaway2 on Saturday March 07, 2026 @04:12PM
(#47291541)
That strategy didn't work out well for the witches of the past...
Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by heddycrow on Saturday March 07, 2026 @04:34PM
(#47291678)
So what? There's all kinds of things that didn't work in the past that at some point began to work.
It wasn't someone who was primarily motivated by fear of the past that made it work the first time.
Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by bird0861 on Saturday March 07, 2026 @09:11PM
(#47293638)
A good general rule in life is that people get one chance to show why they're not worth communicating with, and that's it.
Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by heddycrow on Sunday March 08, 2026 @10:23PM
(#47304151)
I had almost forgotten that one. Thanks for reminding me!
Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by jjmarr on Saturday March 07, 2026 @03:07PM
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AI only uses big words to engage in elegant variation, not to compress information.
If someone calls an article like this a "jeremiad" I know they're a human.
Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by zahlman on Saturday March 07, 2026 @03:25PM
(#47291144)
Oh, well chosen. I keep forgetting that word, and lamenting that "diatribe" (or, er, "lament") doesn't quite fit in some situation.
Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by ipcress_file on Saturday March 07, 2026 @04:52PM
(#47291806)
Interesting. I'll have to keep an eye out for this!
Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by Frost1x on Saturday March 07, 2026 @03:16PM
(#47291080)
I don’t think this is a good long term solution. LLMs can do easy language substitutions and you can even force them to add errors. So relying on that alone won’t work as people intentionally make things look more “human.”
Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by Someone1234 on Saturday March 07, 2026 @03:28PM
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Right, but the problem here are other humans yelling "witch," not LLMs. You're combating people's terrible witch-detector, not anything factual or real.
Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by zahlman on Saturday March 07, 2026 @03:06PM
(#47291013)
I have never really gotten the impression that HN or Reddit commentators write in any particular way overall.
LinkedIn, OTOH....
Re:We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're N...
by teo_zero on Saturday March 07, 2026 @03:29PM
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> now I write less good on purpose, so whatever I commented doesn't get drawn into a sidetrack off-topic witch-hunt.
I've begun downvoting each and every entry that questions the authenticity of a comment or article.
I don't even bother if the claim is true or not. A text can be AI-generated and interesting, or human-written and dumb.
As soon as someone yells "witch" you cannot disprove you're not one, and I've even had people put my handwritten comments through "AI detector" websites that "proved" they were AI (they weren't). It literally just highlighted two popular English phases.
LLMs were trained on sites like HN and Reddit, so now if you write like a HN or Reddit commentator, you sound like AI...