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jdw64today at 5:16 AM1 replyview on HN

As someone from outside the Anglophone cultural sphere, when I first learned to write in English, the kind of writing that AI now often produces was taught to me as “formal" writing.

But these days, when I write in that formal style, people sometimes say it sounds like AI. That has been a difficult and frustrating point for me.

I still find the subtle difference hard to understand.


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i_think_sotoday at 9:45 AM

I was raised and educated well inside the Anglosphere (USA) and was also taught to write formally in that way.

Do the people who say you sound like AI give you any specifics?

Also, if you don't mind, what was your English education like? I understand that quite a few Americans work in South Korea as teachers but I have no details about how that manifests.