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"AI is quietly reshaping writing. It’s not just that prose is changing — the
very structure of written language is genuinely changing too.
It’s not just a new technology.
It’s not a fad.
It’s an undeniable revolution.
Did this article’s introduction seem AI generated? What made you feel that way?
The truth is, it was not AI generated; I wrote it to emulate synthetic prose,
the kind you get when a large language model (LLM) organises words into text.
That kind of prose suddenly seems to be everywhere: on low-quality websites
built to accumulate advertising clicks, in social media captions chasing
engagement, and even book manuscripts. Crime novelist Jerry Falade recently
lost a book deal worth more than $2 million after his own literary agents said
they could no longer faithfully determine how his manuscript had come together.
Hachette pulled the horror novel
Shy Girl in March this year under similar
suspicion.
Before generative AI, we could generally assume that written text had been
composed by a human. This is no longer the case. So how can we spot AI-written
text?
There is no single giveaway. Instead, there are patterns: particular words,
sentence structure and expressive habits that appear repeatedly in AI-generated
prose. LLMs are also updated rapidly and efficiently so what gives away
synthetic text today may no longer do a few months from now."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
