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  • karmelapple 4 hours ago
    So glad to see color photographs of the site.

    One thing I'm not so glad to see is one paragraph that starts with this sentence:

    "The distinction is important. Archaeological maps..."

    That "The distinction is important" smells like AI writing... but maybe we all just have to accept that now?

    • TomK32 14 minutes ago
      Ran it through several testes, only one flagged a few sentences as AI, including the one you mention. Fair enough, it's unlikely that English is the (turkish in this case?) author's first language and a little AI help can't hurt here.

      I learned a great lesson for a gamedev youtuber this summer: Use AI to give you a summary what you have to implement, what functions you'll need, what edge case you missed and then write it yourself. Putting this into practice helps me to refine the ticket I'm working on. With the last ticket I had to persuade the AI (Atlassian's Rovo in my case) that a new data model wasn't necessary and we can do it more elegantly with less code.

      Many of us still have to figure out how AI fits into our workflow, letting it do all the work isn't it but asking AI to point you towards the goal and let it review/refine your work sounds a lot more acceptable to me.

    • 0xpgm 4 hours ago
      As more people start using AI for research, they'll probably adopt AI'isms in their writing too, even if they don't use AI itself to do the writing.

      Subconsciously we all pick up patterns that we regularly encounter.

      • jcims 1 hour ago
        I've definitely picked up 'lever', I scrub it every time that I notice I write it but it's in there.
      • hunter-gatherer 3 hours ago
        I've had that happen to me. I actually recently wrote a draft blog and looked over it, and it felt AI generated. My writing style has definitely changed.
      • youniverse 2 hours ago
        Maybe we need our AI to only respond in bullet point lists.
        • erickhill 1 hour ago
          With emoji for the bullets, natch.
          • TomK32 13 minutes ago
            Just put "Don't use emojis" into the prompt.
        • evoluketion 1 hour ago
          - The

          - Distinction

          - Is

          - Important

      • debo_ 3 hours ago
        This distinction is important.