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AdieuToLogicyesterday at 5:25 AM1 replyview on HN

> The piece was deeply thought-provoking, but I struggled to get through it sensing how much AI was used to write it.

> I’ve been drafting a manuscript for a novel lately, trying to see how well llms can help.

> I recognize this prose immediately as OpenAI gpt 5.

Is it possible you are experiencing confirmation bias[0]?

In other words, by your own admission, you have been "trying to see how well llms can help" as it pertains to writing. With that degree of LLM intimacy, is it possible "the cadence and rhythm and word choices I’ve seen writing my manuscript" is a pattern you are predisposed to identify in other works?

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias


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gyomuyesterday at 6:36 AM

That wouldn’t be confirmation bias, just pattern recognition.

If I teach English as a foreign language, am familiar with the kind of mistakes non native speakers make when writing in English, and can easily identify texts written by non native speakers - that’s not confirmation bias.

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