In an era where artificial intelligence increasingly permeates our digital landscape, distinguishing between human-crafted prose and machine-generated text has become both a crucial skill and a fascinating challenge.
Did your eyelids get heavy reading that sentence? You have generative AI to thank.
I asked my AI companion, Claude, to write an intro, and, on cue, it spit out a classic piece of AI hawk tuah.
With all due respect to Claude, because we get along pretty well, your writing can be as dry as last night's chicken.
And I can't tell you how hard I tried not to ask you for ten better analogies than that.
But let's dissect that first sentence for a second because it possesses many telltale signs that a robot wrote it. Here are a few:
AI loves it some adjectives, especially compound adjectives with hyphens like "human-crafted" and "machine-generated." It just can't get enough of those thought-provoking descriptions.
Complex sentences are AI's jam. It can never just be one thing with AI "Crucial skill" alone won't do. Oh no, it also has to be a "fascinating challenge."
Ernest Hemingway, AI is not.
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I've been working with AI long enough to spot its sneaky ways, its tendencies, its patterns, its likes and dislikes.
Inadvertently, I've become somewhat of an AI profiler, hoping to track it down like a sociopath before it suffocates its next bit of prose.
If this writing thing doesn't work out, there may be a........