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Antibabelicyesterday at 10:46 AM7 repliesview on HN

I found the page Wikipedia:Signs of AI Writing[1] very interesting and informative. It goes into a lot more detail than the typical "em-dashes" heuristic.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing


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jcattleyesterday at 11:24 AM

An interesting observation from that page:

"Thus the highly specific "inventor of the first train-coupling device" might become "a revolutionary titan of industry." It is like shouting louder and louder that a portrait shows a uniquely important person, while the portrait itself is fading from a sharp photograph into a blurry, generic sketch. The subject becomes simultaneously less specific and more exaggerated."

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smusamashahyesterday at 12:22 PM

This is so much detailed and everyone who is sick of reading generated text should read this.

I had a bad experience at a shitty airport, went to google maps to leave a bad review, and found that its rating was 4.7 by many thousand people. Knowing that airport is run by corrupt government, I started reading those super positive reviews and the other older reviews by them. People who could barely manage few coherent sentences of English are now writing multiple paragraphs about history and vital importance of that airport in that region.

Reading first section "Undue emphasis on significance" those fake reviews is all I can think of.

cjlmyesterday at 4:50 PM

Turned this into a ruleset[0] for vale.sh[1]

[0]: https://ammil.industries/signs-of-ai-writing-a-vale-ruleset/ [1]: https://vale.sh/

eddygyesterday at 2:21 PM

It’s also very useful in writing skills to help avoid these kinds of issues.

https://github.com/blader/humanizer

harrisonedyesterday at 1:28 PM

This is very good, but I'm surprised the term "game-changer" is not mentioned there. From my observations this is used a lot in LLM texts.

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paraditeyesterday at 11:51 AM

Ironically this is a goldmine for AI labs and AI writer startups to do RL and fine-tuning.

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