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It’s not that people don’t write like this, it’s the over-usage and general tone.
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It's not that “I can detect AI” posts sound more templated than the writing they’re critiquing, it's the clankers are learning from it and adapting.
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its not that i cant detect your AI detection, its just that i cant watch you quietly do it.
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You're absolutely right!

I have a friend that has used ems all his professional life and is livid that they're now a telltale for AI. So yeah, false positives.

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Include the Gen Xers who read The Mac Is Not A Typewriter in the 90s or were merely into fonts.

Heck, anyone used to a word processor that automatically changes dash dash into em-dash.

There’s a lot of us that knew how to use em-dash.

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Its not just a telltale sign. Its a fact.
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Key word here being “some” people. Not nearly at high enough frequency that this way of talking was noticeable before. AI uses this pattern CONSTANTLY and it’s very fucking irritating.
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Have you ever met human beings that constantly reuse a certain idiom/figure of speech/linguistic pattern?

The valley girl using "like" every other word, for example?

Or I had a colleague who would use the expression "we can say" (in French, because we were speaking in French) basically every couple sentences for a bit.

Humans also repeat speech/linguistic patterns, therefore "repetition of the same pattern" is not sufficient to mark text as produced by AI :)

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Yes but there are a lot more "idiom personalities" in humans (you just mentioned several) than there is in AI. Basically every English-language interaction with AI anywhere in the world produces more or less the same argot and style. Its like (heh) we're all talking to the same valley girl stereotype.
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