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Words, human- or robot-generated, cannot describe how tired I am of the Surefire AI Tip-Off scavenger hunt. It\u2019s as tedious as, say, the \u201cIt\u2019s not [X] \u2014 it\u2019s [Y]\u201d construction in an AI-written blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t me coming out in favor of the widespread acceptance of AI-generated work, or saying the growth of AI use doesn\u2019t matter \u2014 it matters. It has consequences. To the creative industry, to the economy, to the labor market, to our political system, to society, it matters and has consequences, and yet another LinkedIn post with hints on how to tell if your writer is trying to sneak robot content past you is helping with none of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The employers who\u2019ve said an article read just fine, but they put it through an AI checker anyway and it came up 64%? The writers who\u2019ve put their own work through checkers \u2014 totally non-AI-written, pre-ChatGPT even, work \u2014 and had it come up 80% robot-written? The writers who\u2019ve talked about excising em dashes from their writing, their perfectly fine writing<\/em>, for fear of being accused of AI tomfoolery?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please: Stop with the lists. Stop with the checkers. Stop with the LinkedIn posts that\u2026 Eh, just stop with the LinkedIn posts. Don\u2019t stop caring about the implications of Ai usage, but stop trying to clock AI one dead giveaway at a time. Just clock bad writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just\u2026 clock bad writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe it\u2019s AI, or maybe it\u2019s just bad writing.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Remember that all bad AI writing started as a computer remix of an entire internet\u2019s worth of amassed good<\/em> writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Rule of Threes\u201d is good writing. It\u2019s nice and balanced, it\u2019s rhythmic, and it satisfies our very human love for a nice pattern. But if it\u2019s used too often, it feels repetitive. It stands out. And some AIs do have this specific yet indescribable way of using it that\u2019s just, like, \u201cYeah, that\u2019s a robot.\u201d But human- or AI-generated, repetitive phrasing and contorted language are bad writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not [X] \u2014 it\u2019s [Y]\u201d is a fine structure for drawing comparisons and contrasts. \u201cYou might think it\u2019s this thing, but BOOM! It\u2019s this other thing!\u201d It\u2019s got nice parallelism that makes it very satisfying to read. Used excessively, to the point that it becomes noticeable, it\u2019s unsatisfying. Whatever writer, of the human or robot variety, put it on the page needed to dial it back, because that much not-X-but-Y is just bad writing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cBut here\u2019s the thing:\u201d, \u201cAnd honestly?\u201d, \u201cThe result?\u201d, all decent transition markers. They can bring you into the final big idea, or highlight a major conceptual turn, and that\u2019s good. Used too much, they make the writing sound choppy and add a performative kind of \u201cjust folks\u201diness to it. And if<\/em> the writing feels choppy and hey-guys-I\u2019m-just-like-you, a robot could be at fault, but if the writing feels and sounds fine but there\u2019s a \u201cThen I realized:\u201d in there\u2026 maybe the writer just realized something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Underscore, leverage, amplify, <\/em>and seamless<\/em> are words in common usage. Like, by humans. (Delve<\/em> and tapestry, <\/em>probably less so.) Just not all humans in all circumstances. So if your article about mini golf is talking about leveraging pivotal insights for defeating the Goofs the Clown hole, that phrase might could be out of place, no matter who or what put it on the page. It could be worth your time to give the copy an extra once-over to see if anything else potentially robotic jumps out. But J\u2019accuse!<\/em>ing your writer of Fraude over what could just be poor word choice is excessive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not even going to dive back into the em dash thing. I just can\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Man vs. machine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s dehumanizing. In a quite literal way. It\u2019s taking a person\u2019s work and scrutinizing it for hints they might be less than human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the reasons I do<\/em> value real, genuine, human-generated text over the AI version is that the real version is the only one that comes from thought. It\u2019s the only one that involves human insight, experience, considerations, all coalescing into coherent ideas. AI-generated text comes purely from calculation \u2014 it\u2019s statistical prediction of what word should go after another, based on an analysis of things actual, real, thinking people have already said. This instant suspicion at the first sign of the first em dash isn\u2019t just an accusation that the person\u2019s too lazy to write \u2014 it\u2019s that they\u2019re not human enough to think.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Repetitive writing. Tedious writing. Writing that lacks perspective. Language that doesn\u2019t connect with the audience. A tone that\u2019s too smooth, perfect, polished to fit the brand voice. Structure that feels more rehearsed than edited. Writing that\u2019s more strung-together phrases than ideas. That whole uncanny-valley thing that\u2019s common but not exclusive to<\/em> AI writing \u2014 it\u2019s bad writing, however you come by it, however it\u2019s produced, it\u2019s just bad<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bad writing is bad writing<\/em>, and during this Era of AI, it\u2019s reasonable to include \u201cwas it a robot\u201d in your assessment of why the writing is bad. But running to an AI checker at the first sign of a tricolon perfectly at home amid perfectly fine copy is\u2026 bad<\/em>. You\u2019re substituting an unreliable robot\u2019s judgment for your own, you\u2019re getting yourself into a lather over copy you would have given a gold star in pre-GPT years, and if the copy was, in fact, 100% organic, you\u2019re<\/em> the one dragging an AI into the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, I am just sick to death of yet another article by yet another AI detective with the exact same list of clues. That<\/em> is bad writing, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fight to save humanity rages on.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I am, in general, very much opposed to telling other people what they should think or care about. Your mental state, your business. But\u2026 y\u2019all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that the LLMs in common usage were trained on text yoinked from writers without permission or compensation? The fact that ChatGPT uses up to a water bottle\u2019s worth of water<\/a> per short conversation, the training process uses 120 homes\u2019 annual worth of electricity<\/a>, and the rapid spread of data centers is crowding out the housing market<\/a>? The ability (and use) of AI-generated images to falsify the world around us and basically break our perception of reality? All worrisome. \u201cDoes that em dash mean this whole article was written by a robot?\u201d Y\u2019all.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And none of this is to say it doesn\u2019t actually matter<\/em> if something was written by a human or an AI \u2014 it does. It\u2019s the difference between human cognition and computer calculation, human perspective vs. remixed insight, and that does make a difference. But these endless LinkedIn rants and tedious LLM scavenger hunts are only making the entire AI controversy and chaos that much uglier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not going to call it a witch hunt, mostly because witches didn\u2019t actually exist and AI fluffery and fakery definitely do. It\u2019s more a Cylon hunt \u2014 the Battlestar Galactica cyborgs hiding among us. Maybe they really are a sleeper agent, or maybe they\u2019re just a shifty but ultimately human Aerilonian opportunist, and if we\u2019re just going to go around spacing everyone we catch using an em dash, we\u2019re not going to end up with better writing \u2014 we\u2019re going to end up with a lot of good writers out the airlock, and probably some skinjobs left behind that write like robots but know better than to use an em dash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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