I was thinking that publishing some of the handwritten notes (or as many of them as possible) might help. For me, that would be enough evidence to indicate that a writer wasn't lazy and came up with these ideas on their own - assuming the writing itself doesn't have any obvious AI tropes in.

But I feel like there are other ways, and I'm curious what ideas everyone else has

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

I'm occasionally accused of using AI for my writing. I like short and direct sentences. I use bullet points. I guess people think these things are tells for AI. I don't care what anyone thinks. I use my own head, and I'm completely uninterested in any sort of automated feedback, up to and including spelling and grammar check. If someone like me that never uses AI is accused of it, it must be really difficult to differentiate between human and machine writing.

As to your idea about publishing notes, that's part of the process a good creative or essay writing class will teach you. They may require you to create physical note cards and an outline as a preliminary assignment before the actual writing is due. Its good practice for people that don't know how to organize their thoughts, and its pointless for anyone that does. My process is usually one or more text dumps to create content blocks, merge them together, streamline the narrative through the piece, and then a couple rounds of edits. I work with multiple text files that morph as I go, rarely backed up or versioned. There would be nothing for me to offer as half-done work.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • If someone like me that never uses AI is accused of it, it must be really difficult to differentiate between human and machine writing.

    It's more than that, I think. Just like the "increase the contrast to spot AI" folks who've never heard of jpeg compression, the AI witchunters (and I will call them that when they start accusing innocent people of using genAI) have gotten so bad that it almost doesn't matter how you write anymore. I haven't yet been accused of sounding like AI but as a lover of the en and em dashes, colons, et cetera, I feel it's only a matter of time because people were absolutely convinced that any em dash was automatically a sign of the devil AI writing.

  • source
  • parent