alt Hacker NewsWhat’s the AI smell now? Are we not allowed to use semi-colons any more? Proper use of apostrophes? Are we all going to have to write like pre-schoolers to avoid being accused of being AI?
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Imustaskforhelp • yesterday at 10:34 PM
This is so funny because I MADE some comment like this where I was gonna start making grammatical mistakes for people to not mistake me for AI like writing like this , instead of like, this.
One AI smell is "it's not just X <stop> it's Y." Can be done with semicolons, em dashes, periods, etc. It's especially smelly when Y is a non sequitur. For example what, exactly, is a "high-utility response to harmful queries?" It's gibberish. It sounds like it means something, but it doesn't actually mean anything. (The article isn't even about the degree of utility, so bringing it up is nonsensical.)
Another smell is wordiness (you would get marked down for this phrase even in a high school paper): "it’s a fragile state that evaporates the moment you deviate from the expected prompt formatting." But more specifically, the smelly words are "fragile state," "evaporates," "deviate" and (arguably) "expected."