Mastodawn

This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/beware-government-using-image-manipulation-propaganda

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as acting field director of the St Paul Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office...

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toast Feb 1

@eff Please EFF, no more AI-generated content cowriting like this exact line you are quoting from the article 😢

Just this line has: 1) smart quotes, where standard quotes are used elsewhere in the article, 2) em dash, 3) "Not this, but that" negative parallelism (see linked Wikipedia article).

Please tell your writers we DON'T want to read AI-generated stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#Negative_parallelisms

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

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CalypsoDerg ΘΔ&

Feb 1

@toast @eff a lot of LLMs base their writing from articles and literature that used those exact writing styles (using em dashes, rule of 3, quotes, etc)

not saying that the line you quoted doesn't sound like something an a.i would write,,but we also shouldn't immediately excuse it as a.i generated just because it shows a few signs in one quote. a lot of good writers write in similar ways and LLMs are essentially just copying their homework

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toast

@TeensyTinyKobold @eff Yeah, I did jump on this one quote perhaps a bit too fast. My anger mostly comes from the negative parallelism, which is so overused by LLMs, being the *one thing* EFF picked out from the article. The mix of quote styles, shows something was copied, AI gen or not. When coding I've noticed AI overuses dashes in nouns that don't need them, and this article also has that ("start-up", "doubling-down", "Japanese-Americans"). Only the author knows the truth!