alt Hacker NewsJust like in speech, people also have accents in writing. For example, despite having used English on daily basis for years, I can't tell when to use "a" and "the" even if my life depended on it. Native speakers pretty much never make this mistake, but they're likely to make other mistakes, like confuse "there", "they're" and "their", which never happens to me.
Not to mention the overall sentence structure even if my text is grammatically correct. I'm likely to build sentences in a way that mirrors my native language. Sure, after being exposed to tons of text in English I got rather good at it, but if you ask me to speak Spanish, I'll produce sentences that are grammatically correct, but a native would never say them because they prefer other structures to express the same ideas.
> Just like in speech, people also have accents in writing. For example, despite having used English on daily basis for years, I can't tell when to use "a" and "the" even if my life depended on it.
"A" and "an" are indefinite articles[0] used to identify a single entity (noun) without specificity. "The" is a definite article[1] used to identify a single entity (noun) specifically. For example:
The former sentence indicates a vehicle of unknown origin exists "on the street", whereas the latter indicates a vehicle known to the speaker exists "on the street."Now, to the topic at hand. Part of the original post to which I replied is:
> 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.
To the best of my knowledge, this was not posted by the person who wrote the article nor someone with direct interaction with same. Additionally, the quoted text self-identifies as being intimate with LLM generated content in work important to the poster as well as unequivocally identifying the article as "OpenAI gpt 5."
My premise is only that having this level of intimacy with LLM generated text may create a bias toward "this was made by a LLM" when reading prose published by an unknown person.
0 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-it-a-or-an
1 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the