• Gsus4@mander.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    Hahaha, now even the source of new data is starting to be poisoned by LLMs…good luck trying to outproduce LLM slop to train LLMs…and ending up with goop real fast.

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      11 minutes ago

      I’m one of those deranged few who actually used em dashes in my normal typing habits. Not super often the way LLMs are prone to, maybe once a month tops. Alt+0151 or Compose, dash, dash, dash.

      Now a find myself reluctant to use what I felt was a useful bit of punctuation out of concern people might think what I’m typing was LLM generated. It sucks.

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      5 hours ago

      I always liked the dramatic…

      …pause.

      I’ve never used em-dashes to represent them. Am I doing it wrong?

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      7 hours ago

      People have been speaking with punctuation since language was invented. If you only now realize that pause is an em-dash, that’s on your schooling. :-p

  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    If you read the actual article there’s barely any evidence that any of what they are claiming is even remotely true. They talk about vague connections through certain words being used on YouTube that are, in their own words, inconclusive. And a bunch of anecdotal instances on reddit in which mods use “vibes” to detect AI slop comments and posts. And then finish with more anecdotes about some real world encounters that they think are written by AI.

    I mean, no doubt that AI garbage is filtering into online discourse because let’s face it, people are lazy assholes who want easy karma and updoots. But this is hardly evidence that actual conversational language is being altered by AI.

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    7 hours ago

    Depressing, but not surprising. Even before the AS hype, I had long noticed that many people I regularly talk to (including a member of my immediate family who has been a teacher for decades) make horrendous spelling and grammar mistakes that they wouldn’t make if they picked up at least one book, at least once every few months. So: people were already forgetting how to write, spell, and even read coherently way before chatbots.

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    13 hours ago

    So perversely chatbots are increasing people’s vocabulary because people read so few books anymore and most of their word usage comes from what they read online?

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      7 hours ago

      Using a larger vocabulary doesn’t make you sound like an llm, it’s more about the tone.

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      16 hours ago

      That’s a very thoughtful thought! Here’s what I thought you could think about when these thoughtful thoughts come up:

      · Thoughts help thinking brain go poo poo every
      · Sometimes brain say “hmm” but actually “yikes”
      · When idea go bonk against skull wall, that’s innovation
      · Overthinking is just cardio for neurons
      · Deep philosophical questions like “Why am I?” and “How?” share 87% of the same ingredients
      · If you can’t stop thinking, try unplugging brain and plugging it back in (this is also called “a nap”)

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    7 hours ago

    I have never heard people say fluff this often before chatgpt came out. Now everyone uses “no fluff” 💀

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      6 hours ago

      That may be regional. I’ve never heard those two words together in this area. Fluff used to mean padding or excess in 1970s ad-lingo, if I remember it correctly.

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    7 hours ago

    It won’t be long before the keyboard itself is minimized for online communication. Models will be personalized for you in the sense that your text messages, emails, etc can all be generated. Then you just have to select the one you want to use. Kind of like auto-completion now taken to the next level with “AI”.

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    13 hours ago

    I bet this is true but also that a lot of the “human” sources they reviewed were actually written by LLMs anyway, not humans. This is reddit we’re taking about.

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    13 hours ago

    I have found myself saying this phrase to people recently:

    “Summarize what you just said in a single sentence.”

    And so far, everybody has done it.