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Writers Are Going to Extremes to Prove They Didn’t Use AI
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I kinda simultaneously hate and love that a lot of the features of slop writing were taught to me as "the correct, and only correct, way of writing formal English" and now I have an excuse/challenge to write all my shit like an unhinged grammar anarchist
if your background is even remotely medical or biology research-based, even the world's foremost expert is going to use a lot of hedging language because nobody wants to sound like an idiot for claiming "X gene does Y" then some grad student publishes a paper next year with smoking gun evidence that X gene isn't even expressed in vivo lmao
Lol. I use hedging terms constantly, because I'm autistic and precision in language matters to me. 99% certainty is still enough uncertainty to justify a "likely." I'm not planning to change that even if more and more people think my writing is AI.
I do the same but I've started to add casual language to it to make it seem less AI. E.g. Rather than "likely" I'll say "pretty likely" or "I've heard" or something else that doesn't seem very AI but still conveys slight uncertainty.
I cycle through phrases just because language variety also matters. I'm fighting myself not to edit a recent comment because I used "still" twice in one sentence. Lol.
Just drop a few casual shitweasels and I think you're good
or we could just stop perseverating over style of the writing and start focusing on the quality of the content 🤷
I always agreed with info quality over style restrictions even as a kid. I remember fighting with a teacher that I should be able to have standalone numbers/letters in my outline notes because sometimes there's only 1 point in the category and I don't want to make shit up because some knucklehead decided there have to be 2+ items per category
But now I'm mad that I spent all that effort unlearning "bad writing habits" only for those to be something I needed in the future to differentiate me from clankers 🤦♀️ and that the "good writing habits" I personally agree with are now bad
it's a very stupid time to be alive
one of the things i really really hate about medics is precisely that. just take damn accountability and make a statement