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AI only uses big words to engage in elegant variation, not to compress information.

If someone calls an article like this a "jeremiad" I know they're a human.

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Oh, well chosen. I keep forgetting that word, and lamenting that "diatribe" (or, er, "lament") doesn't quite fit in some situation.
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Interesting. I'll have to keep an eye out for this!
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Here's one vote for just be the witch if that's what people need from you.

Just make it be what you want to say and how you want to say it. And when they come after you, shame them to the best of your ability or treat them like they are not there.

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That strategy didn't work out well for the witches of the past...
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So what? There's all kinds of things that didn't work in the past that at some point began to work.

It wasn't someone who was primarily motivated by fear of the past that made it work the first time.

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I don’t think this is a good long term solution. LLMs can do easy language substitutions and you can even force them to add errors. So relying on that alone won’t work as people intentionally make things look more “human.”
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Right, but the problem here are other humans yelling "witch," not LLMs. You're combating people's terrible witch-detector, not anything factual or real.
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> now I write less good on purpose, so whatever I commented doesn't get drawn into a sidetrack off-topic witch-hunt.

I've begun downvoting each and every entry that questions the authenticity of a comment or article.

I don't even bother if the claim is true or not. A text can be AI-generated and interesting, or human-written and dumb.

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I have never really gotten the impression that HN or Reddit commentators write in any particular way overall.

LinkedIn, OTOH....

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I put a piece of text in one and the only line it flagged is the one line I actually wrote.
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No, I do not post a lot about AI. I am talking about normal social media comments on various topics. Perhaps your writing style doesn't lend itself to such accusations.
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