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It really is AI fluff.

Are people starting to write and talk in this manner, I see so many YouTube videos where you can see a person reading an AI written text, its one thing if the AI wrote it, but another if the human wrote it in the style of an AI.

As someone pointed out to me the way an AI writes text can be changed, so it is less obvious, its just that people don't tend to realise that.

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Someone had one of those AI videos on in the background and, I can’t explain it, the ordering of the words is like nails on a chalkboard to me. I’m starting to have a visceral physiological response to AI prose that makes it actually painful to listen to.

The video was a biography about some Olympian, and I could tell the prompt included some facts about her wanting to be a tap dancer as a kid, because the video kept going back to that fact constantly. Every few sentences it would reference “that kid who wanted to be a tap dancer”. By the 6th time it brought up she wanted to be a tap dancer I was ready to scream.

Whenever I see a sentence of the form:

"X isn't A, it's (something opposite A)" I twitch involuntarily.

It's even infecting the highest levels of government:

https://www.pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/mps-are-almost-certainly-...