@ChadMReese: One of the annoying AI trends is people making up their own "tells." I have no idea if the underlying text is or isn't …
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This tweet criticizes the trend of people inventing personal methods to detect AI-generated text, noting that common writing techniques like lists of three are often incorrectly used as indicators.
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One of the annoying AI trends is people making up their own “tells.”
I have no idea if the underlying text is or isn’t AI generated, but “lists of 3” has quite literally been a best practices in writing for basically the entire history of the short essays/op-eds/speeches.
Charles Fain Lehman (@CharlesFLehman): Lists of threes are a pretty good tell usually
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