Oliver ReichensteinJun 4, 2023

What are your indicators that a text has been written by ChatGPT? Here are mine:

- In marketing texts: the word "thrilled", ChatGPT uses it all the time. If today, you read "we're thrilled" to announce something, it has likely been written by AI.
- One cliché after the other, peppered with rare, literary words
- Lots of out-of-the-box adjectives
- Saying the same thing with different words again and again
- Using "In summary" in the last paragraph
- Wrong (often too excited or precious) tone

Show threadKris SowersbyJun 4, 2023
@reichenstein It just smells like a middling wiki summary. Like the difference between a living person and a corpse: all the features are there but the eyes are dead. And it’s usually dull as fuck.
Show threadOliver Reichenstein
@klim I think... It's great for testing what you wrote, finding typos and errors (especially for non native speakers or if you are under pressure or generally if have trouble concentrating) but if you *can* write... your own writing should be clearly better. Whatever GPT write, you should overwrite. GPT also works as a test like that. As long as any of your sentences are worse that GPT's, don't publish.
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Show threadronotypoJun 5, 2023
@reichenstein @klim as a non-native english speaker, I must say GPT is a handy proofreader indeed. Prompts like "improve writing of this text" have produced rather good results.