> It's quite strange that it's very easy to detect AI in writing.

Or you detect only the east to detect AI writing?

I really freaked out once I stopped seeing AI gen videos on those scrollyapps, that fear is what got me off them. (the videos got so good I couldn't tell if they were real or not)

Something something entropy

If I ask three models to write an intro to the cold war, they'll all try to pick words that sound like they should be related-ish. I'm not saying that's how they work at all, but the output is indistinguishable from just grabbing some words in the wikipedia page.

Humans make mistakes. They'll use words they recently learned. They'll use words that sound good. Entropy still applies, but these outliers are what keeps us from a synthetic piece of writing

Especially with how they pick (one of) the most likely word as the next one. And the most likely word is exactly the one with least entropy, the least surprising one and giving the least amount of information you can.

"I am also an engineer, which means I have a healthy respect for the practical. All this made me a fine skeptic ..." is what did it for me.

For me it’s easily the — character. Like no human would use that since it’s not in any standard keyboard

Option-hyphen key on macOS. I used to make prolific use of the emdash and LLMs took that from me!

It's readily accessible on a software keyboard. Software keyboards are common on smartphone devices. Y'know that thing that 75% of the world's population uses?

How many words before you realized it was a piece of shit though? For me it was "Because I am a Sci-Fi nerd." Yet I kept reading, because I am a fucking fool, and now I'm pissed that I spent time on it.

I think in this case "this isn't AI writing" is not a compliment. I find the tone pretty grating, tbh. The author clearly has a very high opinion of themselves. Just explain your ideas clearly so we can evaluate them on their merits.