Don't worry, OP, no one will conflate you for an AI. You didn't hyphenate "dystopian-ass", which is a compound adjective (unless it's meant to be "ass-time", a compound noun).

The tragedy of my life is that I used to put a lot of dashes in my comments - not em dashes, just plain old minus signs. They're not really used in my native language but I picked that up from reading Edgar Poe when I was a kid.

This post was probably made to give people with bad English grammar hope, but we still know when you can't spell. What the hell is "spaghetive"?

Here, have an em dash, on me. I'll take the fall: —

You know what, I've started using em dashes more since the advent of "AI", in protest. I even learned how to type it out on desktop using its Unicode number, 2014. En dash is 2013, on a related note. Pretty useful IMO.

ugh and when you're chatting with someone and they have good ideas or correct you, I always feel so dirty writing "You're right" like I'm using the top 10 worst slurs combined

I have invested years of my life to learn how to spell, use proper grammar, structure my sentences and make a cogent point. Which is why I shall henceforth strive to insert a random motherfucking profanity in as many of my comments as I reasonably can.

I can't afford to lose grammatical skills. Not while in college or anywhere, especially if you need a job or to put together a resumé or you need a thesis written to exit college.

De aceea nu mai scriu în engleză

Yeah, been noticing that snarky reddit users will be like "ok, ai prompt". All that it tells me is that, we do have a huge literacy problem in the world. Especially the USA.

Nowadays I just let my typos fly

ChatGPT sounds like corpo-speak middle manager marketing slop. I’ve read about 300 books this year, and the idea I’m going to mistake good writing for AI (or vice versa) is insane. The only people who think this are people who don’t actually read.

That was an interesting problem that my daughter had at university. She studied a field held in English in a non-English country (no, not USA either!). Her fellow students asked her what AI she was using for her papers, as they were always in perfect English. As she absolutely hates AI and despises using them, this very idea made her furious.

Yes, she wrote those papers herself. Her English is good enough that she did the Cambridge Certificate while she was in school. Her teachers considered her "native speaker", and sometimes consulted her on texts and vocabulary. And those assholes just assume she must have used an AI just because she is good at it.

Ugh, absolutely fucking annoying. I’ve been online since 1994. Back then, proper spelling and grammar were enforced by ‘grammar nazi’s’. If you wanted your post to be taken seriously, you had to write it properly. Because of that, I tend to write longer posts with proper grammar.

Unfortunately, not writing like a drunk koala means you now MUST be an AI.

I’ve pretty mych resorted to inserting a random typo somewhere in the comment or post so at least it looks like a human typed.

It's literally already documented that ESL speakers and people from outside US/UK sphere get flagged by this stupid "AI detection" nonsense more often. Because they know more uncommon words.

To my brethren: Stay resolute. Nay, your vocabulary training was not in vain. Never diminish your communicative abilities merely due to prevailing idiocy. Signed... (Verily, never mind, I shall use proper punctuation for this one.)
—some lass from the far north of Fennoscandian wastes

My office has dodged a lot of phishing emails because the bots are never as abrupt, poorly composed, and misspelled as emails from the actual bosses