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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️
@chenchenzhang.net

there's a versatile Chinese word 油腻 that's hard to translate. the core meaning is oily/greasy, but it can be applied to anything from music, writing, to people. when applied to people, "smarmy" is similar but not exactly the same. for me 油腻 is the perfect word for describing AI writing

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️
@chenchenzhang.net

highly predictable, overly polished, empty sophistication. I was reading a piece from 2017, and I saw "this isn't just... this is...". You really can't unsee it. Yes people had always been using these, and the emdashes, before GPT, but when the internet is so oversaturated with

Mary Parks
@maryparks.bsky.social

I think of this phenomenon as the devaluation of communication based on “source.” Like if you receive a hand-written ❤️note from your loved one, vs a type-written note, vs an email, vs a text message, vs some predictive text output, how much do you value each? Same question for the writer of the note

Mary Parks
@maryparks.bsky.social

At least, your post made me think it could be a similar phenomenon. If not a devaluing of communication sources, a change in how we value certain language patterns found in text

Timothy
@timothyhelmuth.com

definitely not clear to me, but in the second post "highly predictable, overly polished, empty sophistication.". a glossy magazine, glossy production, etc? sometimes it's meant positively but also to describe empty hollywood movies, magazines sold at the grocery checkout, etc