I start reading what is supposedly a powerful personal story about burnout in open source. Then I start to see the pattern - that familiar tempo. Admittedly there's no "Not x. Not y. Just z'. But there's that faint whiff, like the neighbor is burning toast. The paragraphs are just a bit too regular. Something about the headings. Yeah my dude, you used ChatGPT to write this, didn't you. I'm sure of it. Not sure enough of just how much to comment on the post, and I don't have the energy to get in an argument about it.

Ai both degrades trust - making us suspicious of everything we see and read - and sucks the life and personality out of absolutely everything it touches. I'm so sick of starting to read and going, oh, nope this is machine-generated nothingness. I hate this. I hate all of it.

@bluetea

Yeah, 100%. The poisoning of trust is the worst aspect of the whole thing. It voids any strategy that tries to maintain an LLM-free zone. It attacks us from inside the city walls.

#StopTheAICorruption

@the_roamer yeah it's a real issue. I'm dreading marking my next batch of essays - there's an obligation to maintain academic integrity, and I just don't know how I'm going to navigate it.

@bluetea @the_roamer

And we know that some neurodivergent people write in a style that resembles AI…

@Susan60 @the_roamer this is where it gets problematic. A neurodivergent person close to me has been accused of using AI when I know for a fact that they didn't.