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[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

A year after Elon bought Twitter there was a study done that found out roughly half of all Twitter users are fake.

Most reddit users are fake now.

The spam from AI bots are draining more electricity than cities, it is quickly becoming the majority of global power usage.

These datacenters need to be burned down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

With the owners inside, preferably.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

"You can totally trust things that sound like they're AI generated, that's just how people talk now! Trust us!"

Was this funded by ChatGPT?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I probably would be among the last to notice, as I have never used this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

I understand, and there is no need to feel out of place. It is perfectly fine to engage at your own pace. Should you choose to explore this further, I am here to provide any assistance you may need with utmost support and encouragement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Comment of the day 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 28 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

No thanks. I model my speech after movie/TV show characters like a normal person.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Like Yosemite Sam and Foghorn Leghorn, hopefully

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Why re invent the wheel when there ready made templates for any identy one would think of!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

I'm pretty old, so I still speak Dan Rather / Tom Brokaw English (American?). Might have a touch of Walter Cronkite even, although I was pretty young when he retired. I have no skibidi toilet, but I like to misuse it in the hopes of killing it off with my uncoolness. I am definitely excited about the world going to Ohio in a handbasket.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I was admittedly pulled in by the clickbait title but then saw that it's a Vice article and realized that reading this crap would be pointless as it will all be absolute bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

I think i've seen more people use "-" in emails and what have you more within the past year than ever before and it makes me wonder "did they use chatgpt to write this?"

or I've had project managers on jobs I'm consulting for use "final thoughts:" in docs/emails and I know for a fact they didn't write it. When you use AI pretty much daily for your job like I do you can spot people using it from a mile away. Blog posts, game/movie/book reviews, proposals, emails, etc everyone is using it. Hell you can spot it here on Lemmy and on Reddit very easily. it's harder to find actual real person written content these days then AI content.

and if they use EM Dashes? 100% it's AI.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

cries in using emdashes since years before LLMs existed

Edit: misspoke, AI doesn't exist

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

I used dashes for decades. I've removed all of them all since ChatGPT became popular. It doesnt help that I think ChatGPT overuses them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

and if they use EM Dashes? 100% it's AI.

Sorry to disappoint you, but I regularly use em dashes. (It's ALT+0151 on PC.)

Remember that the models do model on the writings of actual people. They're just regurgitating it really badly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Applications such as Exchange/Outlook turn a double dash to an em dash when you type it. I've used them for a couple decades.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Oh, that's kinda useful to know. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Libre office always extends my - - - little dashes - - -

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

This isn't even ai in itself, it's roughly similar to the axios smart brevity format. So many business communications work like this today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

I know my product managers don't use chatGTP because they end all sentences with ... , every damn time. And I'm fairly sure their habit developed independently, given that one of them is from a relatively recent purchase of a company.

[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're totally correct! People really start talking like ChatGPT. Here's an explanation why...

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That is an excellent point, you're making. I would like to add that ...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm so glad to have you both in this conversation. May i suggest ...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're correct. As you know, I am still learning...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Sure! How would you prefer I make it stop, or would you like to talk about something else?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Got it, we need to rename Gen Alpha to Gen NPC.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

fr fr thats no cap bussin

... or something like that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

What was that sonny? Yer speakin inteh m'bad ear.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

/* holds up video of skibidi toilet */

/* does the fortnite floss dance */

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

eyes start bleeding

👍

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I haven't noticed this yet fortunately. Anyone?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

It's a Vice article so it's all bullshit anyhow.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Not really. There's a lot of Eastern Europe where the kids speak English they learned from YouTube, so they all have American accents and call people "bro." Speach patterns like ChatGPT would be too cheery to be taken seriously by anyone.

Like, in this world right now, are there people that respond to a question with a chirpy, "Certainly! Let's dive in to that!"

Doubt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

That first bit always feels so false and icky. Like, no I didn't open up chatGPT to have my butt licked every other sentence. I just need the syntax for X or Y, and no I'm not delving into interesting depths of typescript. I'm monkeypatching the code to make a certain thing work and probably leaving a trail of wanton destruction behind every step I go.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Like, in this world right now, are there people that respond to a question with

Certainly! Let's dive into that:

As the ChatGPT platform has grown in userbase over the years, it can be assumed that younger foreign users would pick up on the language patterns — specially if they are communicating with the platform on a daily basis.

Much like the already-existing effect of children picking up on Youtuber's mannerisms and verbal styles over time, this brings up Nature vs Nurture1 methods of learning.

Would you like to explore more about how this comment was generated by a human with no LLM help, or tricks to make your own written text sound like you're fake?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you truly didn't use LLM, kudos to you. You managed to switch my brain off in the first paragraph like only slop does. I had to force myself to read it

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Just the occasional garbage comment or message where someone has clearly just copied and pasted a direct LLM output.

I do feel like lately I have people more bluntly asking me for stuff though and getting frustrated respectfully respecifying what they want but that also started before covid. People just want answers they think should be readily available for a while now.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There's so very much in that paper that doesn't seem to suggest what they are saying it does. It suggests people are directly using those tools to create scripts for academic videos instead of their fundamental speech changing. They state that they manually reviewed for "reading vs spontaneous" and found about 30 percent were directly reading a script, but extrapolating the non "reading" samples to not have used AI copy edited outlines in this context is a leap. It would make more sense that they did. These lecture videos were not examples of natural language use in any sense.

Our study is focused on academic communication, yet we anticipate that similar patterns may extend to other communicative contexts.

Seems particularly unfounded (though it really has enough hedges to make it a non statement "similar" "may" with no reference to what context they're thinking of). It's also a preprint that gets most of its models from preprints.

Then the vice article takes every weakness of the paper and actually amplifies them to a really profound degree. We've got researchers trying to push an AI is transformative narrative and a journalist trying to push an AI makes you stupid narrative right off a cliff into "popsci journalists reporting on preprints make stupid claims" pit.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Literally don't talk to enough people to notice. 🤷🏿‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

AI shills are coming for you... Dont you want a friend who lives in data center?!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Joke's on them, I already talked like that 😆

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's just a case of art imitating life imitating art imitating life imitating art imitating life. What's so hard to understand about that?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Pfft, people talk like every celebrity out there. I can name plenty of examples where everyone seems to adopt the word of the day. "deplorables", "believe me, folks"

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