Post #3940505

2026-07-18 15:16 UTC

When I tried to write a tutorial and was posting it as a thread here, people said it sounded like an LLM. I've written a LOT of online tutorials over the last twenty some years and they all got into Common Crawl. It's not a coincidence that AI sounds like me.

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@PinoBatch@peoplemaking.games 2026-07-19 16:22

@celesteh@hachyderm.io In Soviet Kenya, ChatGPT writes like YOU! Or at least Marcus Olang claimed as much in this article. https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt

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@slembcke@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-07-19 16:31

@celesteh@hachyderm.io Yeah... A couple years before it became an "AI" thing I discovered the trick of using emoticons in headings to make pages a little more interesting without being a "real" designer. (ex: https://codeberg.org/slembcke/debugger.lua) Now that's considered an AI tell, and I'm kinda pissed. -_- On the other hand, LLMs have made me realize I'm really not that good of a writer, and I'm kinda ok with that if it means people will believe only a real person could write like me. >_< Hehe

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@nikku4211@peoplemaking.games 2026-07-19 19:21

@celesteh@hachyderm.io At this point, I don't know if my blunt writing makes me sound more like an LLM or less like one.

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