Marvelous examination of how to spot 2026-era AI writing, via the Economist - AI likes long sentences with less punctuation; “and” is its most overused word - relatedly, lists of three things, which drives up use of "and" as well - polysyllabic adjectives: “significant”, “increasingly” - scientific jargon ("rate-limiting," “parameter”) - nominalizations (making nouns from verbs: eg, “expansion” from “expand”) - ofc, everyone's favorite: "it's not X, it's Y"
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Outside of X all the people i talk to, openly admint using AI to write stuff, and they dont care that much if its AI ( also a lot of them are not reading anymore, they just ask AI to summarize) my point being... should we really be waisting time caring about AI writing patterns?

Aug 3, 2026 · 3:44 PM UTC

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Replying to @robb_ayala @DKThomp
Yes, because ai content is hard to read. It’s distracting and unmemorable. I mean if you don’t want people to read your stuff then I suppose it’s fine?
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It's not wasting time. People have a very real negative reaction to AI generated text. I'm not anti-AI at all. I even want to see more of it in things like video games, but I've noticed that I started skipping content if my AI spider sense gets triggered.
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Replying to @robb_ayala @DKThomp
Nobody I know wants to read things that were "written" by a computer and falsely attributed to a human author.
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Yes, we absolutely should, you dork. But feel free to live the rest of your life in SlopLand while your brain slowly shuts down from lack of usage
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I find this post unsettling.
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