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Maybe I should have added this part. As a non-native English speaker, using AI to write RFCs, ADRs, and internal documentation, my own writing style shifted so
by 0megion 24d ago
Maybe I should have added this part. As a non-native English speaker, using AI to write RFCs, ADRs, and internal documentation, my own writing style shifted so much to the direction that my writing seems like AI.
- frio 24d agoIn that case, sorry for getting it wrong and throwing shade.
- zsoltkacsandi 24d agoI noticed the same on myself. In a few years it would be interesting to see a research about how LLMs influenced the choice of words in the general population.
- altmanaltman 24d agoI am also a non-native English speaker but that doesn't mean you start speaking Claudian English just because you interact with AI. If people do not like that particular style of writing and you understand it clearly, why would you double down on it? Especially if your goal is to share your writing with the intention of them reading it? Furthermore, why not just blog in your native langauge if that is comfortable for you?
- 0megion 24d agoThat is fair. However, the fact that we have this discussion because I wrote the post in English, I wouldn’t reach out to my fellow engineers to discuss the matter this broadly.
- altmanaltman 24d agoI don't think the existence of this discussion has anything to do with the topic we are discussing. "I wrote this myself but I only know how to write like an AI because that's how I talk in English all the time" is a weird stance to take. Furthermore, your comments are a completely different style of writing so how are you able to write like that here but suddenly switch to Claudian English for the blog? Regardless, my feedback to you would be to disclose AI writing if you do use it (in the blog itself, not as a reply when called out for it) or if you genuinely write like that, aspire to be better than AI generated content if you care about what you are reaching out with in the first place imo.
- unified101 24d agoJeez, give it a rest. He's made a good point about accessibility. I guess you don't like it, so skip it then? Don't constantly relitigate.
- slopinthebag 24d agoGenuinely hilarious copout. "It's not AI, I just sound like one!!!"
- antonvs 24d agoI’m one of the people who regularly complains about AI slop posted here. But fwiw, your post didn’t trigger my LLM detector, and you’re writing thoughtfully about things that many of us are thinking about. Kudos.
- whatisthiseven 24d agoWeird, I put your blog post through Pangram Labs. It said 96% of the article was written wholesale by an AI. So, if you "write like AI" like you claim in a later comment, you are so good at it to accidently hit Pangram's extremely low false positive rate. It is trivial to check this stuff. Just be honest.