Signs The Fictional Reddit Story You're Reading Was AI Written

[Myriad]

• "... a smile that didn't reach her eyes."

* "...the four words that would change everything: SYSTEM ACCESS REVOKED, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY"

• "I didn't cry. I didn't shout. I didn't [something else]. Instead, I..."

• "[Name] was the Golden Child."

 

[Skeptical Greg]

Well, AI had to get it from somewhere.

A quote from Darling Girls

But her smile didn’t reach her eyes. It reminded Norah that, unlike she and Alicia, who felt nothing but hatred for Miss Fairchild, Jessica’s feelings fo...

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No. 2 Is really redundant.. Just looks like poor writing in a Kindle $.99 special.

3 Looks like a fun " cookie jar " type game. " Instead, I pointed the gun and pulled the trigger.
( maybe a fun topic for a new thread )

4 You're really struggling if you need AI for that.

 

[theprestige]

... It reads exactly like a typical human-written reddit story?

AI being trained by people who have already been trained to write in certain tropes and cliches is exactly the dystopia we deserve.

 

[kookbreaker]

Yeah, No. 1 was a fine way of saying someone's smile is insincere, but it became overpopular and got Hoovered up into many people's writings that it became and almost instant cliche. People have been noticing it for a while now and are sick of it.

I've seen AI and and human writers use it.

 

[jimbob]

Disclaimer

xkcd.com

You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word 'delve'. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.

 

[Olmstead]

I thought the sign was that they write like a high-school student paraphrasing someone smarter than them and really struggling to meet the word count.

 

[Skeptical Greg]

I thought the sign was that they write like a high-school student paraphrasing someone smarter than them and really struggling to meet the word count.

Paraphrasing CliffsNotes ..

 

[Myriad]

The most tellingly characteristic of AI specifically is the second one in my OP. The neural network knows that "the X words..." can belong in a particular narrative framework, but hasn't learned that X expresses a quantity that matters in context. It probably has no conception of a count of words to begin with.

 

[Spektator]

"The room smelled of sweaty feet, vanilla, and cocaine."

And the HOA attempts to seize property it doesn't own, only the narrator has a trick up his sleeve, his lawyer is always a woman, and so is the president of the HOA, who carries a clipboard everywhere (she even sleeps with it) and all the color drains from her face . . . .

her feet must be cherry red.

 

[Helen]

I thought the sign was that they write like a high-school student paraphrasing someone smarter than them and really struggling to meet the word count.

Yes, something like that - most AI writing that I come across, or that I identify as such at least, is a bit too human; too polite, too eager to please, and a bit too naive - it simply tries too hard to make it non-machiney. I find it hard to pin down in words, but I know it when I see it.

 

[arthwollipot]

It's been said - accurately in my opinion - that if you ask an AI a question, you will get a response that looks like what an answer to that question should look like.

 

[jimbob]

It's been said - accurately in my opinion - that if you ask an AI a question, you will get a response that looks like what an answer to that question should look like.

Happened to my brother using copilot at work. There was a citation in a report he was looking at, so he asked for the source, and low and behold, it provided the full reference. The only problem was that it didn't exist when he tried to get it. He asked a few more questions and it came out that it was what copilot thought he wanted as a reference - fitting the criteria for his search. He eventually found it was an internal report that he had access to.

 

[Spektator]

If I recall correctly, the attorneys for Trump got themselves in hot water by using AI to write a brief in which every case cited turned out to be artificially imaginary.

 

[Myriad]

And the HOA attempts to seize property it doesn't own, only the narrator has a trick up his sleeve, his lawyer is always a woman, and so is the president of the HOA, who carries a clipboard everywhere (she even sleeps with it) and all the color drains from her face . . . .

I've seen many of these (and even read or listened to a few).

It's a sub-category of a more general category that seems to have become commonplace. I'm not sure if it's because of AI or if AI is picking up trends from human writers.

The category is, "people face problems that aren't actually problems."

In the HOA stories category, it's people fighting an HOA that they're not a member of.

In the family stories category, it's people being wronged by their families even though (as it always turns out) they're the entire family's only financial support, and/or they're secretly a multimillionaire.

In business stories, it's people being wrongly demoted or fired even though (1) their employer is completely dependent on them and will quickly go out of business without them, and (2) a competitor immediately hires them with better pay and a higher position.

In science fiction, it's alien federations mistreating or disrespecting the humans among them even though it turns out humans are in every way more advanced and more powerful than all the aliens put together.

I suppose these are all really "Mary Sue" stories in slight disguise.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

The category is, "people face problems that aren't actually problems."

To be fair to the AI, that's what a significant percentage of human griping is about .

 

[novaphile]

"It was a dark, and stormy night..."

 

[8enotto]

Most of the YT vids on HOA VS ranchers, evil bosses, divorce stories, evil in laws, bikers VS ______, and veterans getting disrespected in diners.

Pure AI drivel that always leaves a long drawn out story ending with the bad guy totally humiliated.
I wonder if the channels are finding this material lucrative?

 

[Norman Alexander]

You

I've seen many of these (and even read or listened to a few).

It's a sub-category of a more general category that seems to have become commonplace. I'm not sure if it's because of AI or if AI is picking up trends from human writers.

The category is, "people face problems that aren't actually problems."

In the HOA stories category, it's people fighting an HOA that they're not a member of.

In the family stories category, it's people being wronged by their families even though (as it always turns out) they're the entire family's only financial support, and/or they're secretly a multimillionaire.

In business stories, it's people being wrongly demoted or fired even though (1) their employer is completely dependent on them and will quickly go out of business without them, and (2) a competitor immediately hires them with better pay and a higher position.

In science fiction, it's alien federations mistreating or disrespecting the humans among them even though it turns out humans are in every way more advanced and more powerful than all the aliens put together.

I suppose these are all really "Mary Sue" stories in slight disguise.

Young Christian student outfoxes an older, cranky, atheist professor with one simple question about God/Jesus/bible which they cannot answer. Whole class converts on the spot, etc.

 

[theprestige]

"It was a dark, and stormy night..."

I've never understood the hate for this line. It seems fine to me. The rest of the opening paragraph goes a little bit too much, but that first sentence is a solid opening. In my opinion.

 

[arthwollipot]

I've never understood the hate for this line. It seems fine to me. The rest of the opening paragraph goes a little bit too much, but that first sentence is a solid opening. In my opinion.

It's because it's a solid opening that it's become a cliché.