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Did you purposely use an element of a famous triad as your last word? 😁

Yes. David Owen, a UK politician some time ago, would do this all the time. Ideas 1 and 2 were usuall sane, idea 3 was between logically wrong to batshit crazy

“If you use proper grammar, you’ll be accused of using AI…”

Whelp I just fed something I wrote yesterday into it and it’s partially AI apparently, but it doesn’t give any example of why that is 😂

All I'm seeing from these is that if you use an uncommon LLM, you'd sail on through without issue. Bunch of these are very tied to specific models. Not even just companies, but the model itself.

Seriously! That's how orators have laid out their points since frikking Cicero!

A rise of the triads if you will

I feel like that goose meme honking 'where did ai learn these features from?'

Soylent Green is people!

Beat me to this

It never occurred to me that I might have a slight case of dyslexia! I just thought I was amusing!

I have published over 50,000 articles, all of which remain publicly available. So... yeah. It is.

Why does AI write in triads? Because that's a rhetorical technique that's so common it was all over the training data, ffs.

I have the Alt+ codes for all of these and letters with diacritics memorized. Same reasons.

That’s human writers for you, famously not loving em dashes

Yeah I’m starting to think it ultimately will be the ai checkers that will kill prose, not the llms

What is additionally infuriating about this is that the LLMs use these technics specifically because people like you — and, obviously, others — produced books, articles, and blogs posts long ago that train their models. They wouldn’t write like this if we didn’t already write like this!

I've had the alt codes for – & — memorized and specifically bought external keyboards that had number pads—even though laptops have integrated keyboards—specifically so I could en/em dash to my little heart's content LONG before AI was a thing. AI learned emdashes from ME.

It is crazy that standard practices of good writing are now identified and labeled by AI as proof of nonhuman writing. AI needs to sit down and actually read a fucking book (instead of ingesting all of them at once).

I love the em dash! I’ve used it forever. It sucks that it’s associated with AI writing now!

They're using automated systems to detect automated systems because the automated systems are garbage and wonder why people say their automated systems are garbage.

Have you seen the group that created a new em dash symbol that (for now) generative AI can’t use? It works on two custom fonts they published: “Times New Human” and “Areal” www.theamdash.com

Fuck there's a reason [word]hyphen-hyphen[word][space] autocorrects to an em dash in every modern word processor. East Slavic languages like Ukrainian and Russian use the em dash grammatically, because inflection can't be handled in writing by a declension-heavy system that makes word order mutable

Maybe SHOUT IN ALL CAPS, slip in dumb misuses—like “rein” when you mean “reign”—smile when autocarrot changes “its” to “it’s” and stick commas where they don’t belong… Maybe then you can use em dashes to space-efficiently separate asides, etc to be seen as an illiterate person vs a bot

. Fuckin-A (My profile):

AI is making a relentless push to steal our voice, our credibility — and our trust. It's not AI-detection, it's for-profit linguistic homogenization. Or something like that.

I'm not sure that's better. Either they obscure how it is determined, or they say "you don't write like a typical human, so you are not human". Which, if the goal is to make everyone conform to survive, we may as well give in to "AI" anyway. Uniqueness and creativity is what we're trying to protect.

I used them a lot in technical documents. System architecture documents, low level implementation documents, etc. Depending on settings Word will create them if you type two dashes in a row.

What? Triads are an AI thing, allegedly? IIRC I was taught as a kid to try to give examples or make points in a triad (without being taught the name). Plus three always seems like a good number: two isn’t general enough and four is too many.

Fantastic.

Forgot this: @ellecordova.bsky.social