xkcd #3126: Disclaimer

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You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word ‘delve’. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3126/

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  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Not ChatGPT output — I’m just like this.

    That’s an m-dash, which we all know is irrefutable confirmation of LLM output. /s

    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      iirc its m-dash as well as constant rule of threes and generally using incredibly formal sentence structures even when the language involved is not formal in any way. Kind of like what I just did there though probably with an extra comma after m-dash.

  • zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works
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    23 days ago

    Yep ChatGPT must have learned from people like me, because:

    • I write long texts
    • I over explain stuff to people who did not ask for explanation
    • I use bullet points in every post
    • logicbomb@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      Claim:

      • I use bullet points in every post

      Fact Check:

      Out of your 36 comments, this is the only one with bullet points. That’s only 2.7% of your comments. One other has an enumeration, but an enumeration is not bullet points.

      Additionally, you have one post, but that also doesn’t use bullet points. 0% of your actual posts use bullet points.

      Conclusion: Claim is FALSE. Ziffy-fa-Jazz-KZone-Sweek’em does not use bullet points in every post.

      • zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works
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        22 days ago

        Nice :) I like that you did that! But to clarify some things:

        • I use them mostly in emails where there is actual content to write
        • I rearly post online
        • I was exadurating
        • I use new account every few months.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    You just have say fuck a lot…

    But I’m pretty sure any explanation of Bombadil less than 300 words would fail the Turing test

    • logicbomb@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      You can actually get LLMs to swear, sort of. They just won’t use real swear words. If you set up your LLM parameters to use a specific word for an expletive, but it’s not actually an expletive, then you can replace that word with your choice of expletive after the text is generated.

  • bentcheesee@lemmy.zip
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    21 days ago

    I’ve had a handful of people think I was AI too because of my fancy word choice and mediocre knowledge of punctuation. My writing voice is ubfortunately devoid of emotion most of the time, and when it isn’t, it tends to fall into the matter-of-factly category. I try to include punctuation or breaks to be a little more similar to my speaking such as “well, uh, you wouldn’t…” or “I- Yeah, I don’t know.” I think my personal favourite I do do is “I think it was… two…? weeks ago?”

    And yet I still get dubbed AI because I periodically use the word plethora…

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      There’s always one good litmus test, if you can ask someone live before they have a chance to do a Google search: ask what the alt code is for an em dash.

      If they don’t immediately answer 0151, they’re full of shit.

      • Melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        22 days ago

        I feel like this is more likely to lead you astray than anything. An LLM bot will immediately know the alt code, while a real person will only know it if they use Windows. Lots of people use Linux, or mobile keyboards.

        • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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          22 days ago

          Throw them into a lake, I guess. If they sink and drown, they’re innocent. If they float, you know they’re full of (buoyant) shit (and can then safely burn them at the stake if you want to).

        • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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          21 days ago

          That’s fine, LLMs use mainly em dashes so there would be no confusion, hence that being the litmus test.

        • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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          21 days ago

          Hmmm, I think to know for sure, we’ll have to throw your device into a lake. Apples float, so if it’s a genuine Designed By Apple in California™ computer that supports that option, it won’t sink and then we’ll know you’re telling the truth.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    you can keep using pronounciation correctly and writing long paragraphs of words if you lowercase it all, just saying.

  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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    21 days ago

    Imitating LLM to piss off AI haters is just next level trolling. As everyone knows, trolling is a art.

    • dufkm@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      ChatGPT is changing the way we talk

      Started the video, and the first comment I saw was along the lines of “so it’s changing scripts that are read, not how people talk”. Had no need to watch any further.