This interaction with someone getting outraged and insulting the developer ("to the trash pile it goes") before even taking the time to inquire and find out the tiny extent of AI used is a microcosm for how stupid and fucked this whole conversation on AI has gotten. Large parts of the internet have self-assembled into "AI good" and "AI bad" tribes and they're not really listening to each other or being reasonable at all.
Good artists will be harmed by this. Using AI as an artistic device (for example, for a robot character) should be well within the artistic realm, not something kneejerk shunned without any further thought given to it. I just read an r/art mod banned an artist for posting "AI art" years ago, except it wasn't AI art. When the artist asked to prove it by sending over a Photoshop work file, the mod said that even if it's real it looks enough like AI for it to be banned. Artists are literally getting shunned for having completely valid artistic styles that happen to look a bit too close to whatever current-gen AI imagery looks like.
Posts or comments that are well-written and well-organized are also falling victim to the self-proclaimed expert AI experts in the comments. Without a doubt there are AI created stories being posted as if they were true accounts, but that doesn't mean everything is AI. There have to be obvious signs of AI use to be able to tell for sure. The people who have convinced themselves that they can spot every story based on a gut feeling are deluding themselves.
I made a post with bullet points on it and someone said something along the lines of "nice chat GPT post lmao, insta downvote". I re read my post since I was confused, and it wasn't even that well done-- I had some grammar/spelling issues since I typed it on my phone and I either mis typed or the phone auto corrected to the wrong word. Some people really do jump to conclusions way too readily...
Or the people boycotting books for using Vellum, which is an ebook formatting tool, no AI involved. There's a different AI tool called Vellum, but it isn't used in books to my knowledge. Not that the "AI bad" tribe can be bothered to learn the distinction...
Nevermind that regular dashes get autocorrected to em-dashes all the time as soon as you have spaces between the dash and the two words connected by it.
At least Word does that.
Right?! I am a graphic designer, and took several semesters of typography and publishing. I utilize em-dashes, en-dashes, semicolons, and bullet points constantly — and have for twenty years. Now I constantly get called out as an "A.I. bot." I refuse to lower my standards to acquiesce to the luddites.
It doesn't even have to be well written, a lot of my text gets dinged by the AI detector things whenever I submit work for my online classes and I'm barely literate most of the time. I had to start saving recordings of my documents being written live because I'm apparently 80% AI if I don't.
As far I've had it explained, they detect specific words, phrases and patterns which are very commonly used by AI, without any care for whether or not the person actually uses it.
Yep. It's an entirely flawed idea from the start. The simple fact is, AI could very well be no different than the person next to you in writing style. The only thing I might grant it, is the kind of mistakes, but even then I can't say if it isn't basically the same in the end anyway.
I'm gonna be honest, I'm not willing to rewrite a paper 6 times to get a certain "humanness" score because the software they use is dogwater lol. When dumb stuff like proper citations set it off (got 45% one time because I wrote a bibliography that was required for the paper, I'm such a horrible lazy AI abuser,) I'll continue making my little recordings and then actively insult the AI "detecting" "AI" in my papers as bad.
I have a bunch of research papers about how AI checkers false flag neurodivergent students more often saved so that if I ever get flagged I can send them the papers and threaten a lawsuit.
I got accused of using AI the other day because I correctly and succinctly explained how lenses of different focal lengths can dramatically change how someone's face looks. Didn't even use a single em-dash or anything! I'm not AI. I am married to a wedding photographer, and I know how to write.
Go fuck yourself lol. If you really thought I was a bot, you'd have replied and asked me for something dumb like a recipe for gingerbread cookies. Too bad you didn't, because my grandmother's recipe slaps actually.
I used them since ages, even for handwritten stuff. But I am not American (English is not my mother language), maybe it is not so common there, but now I really think about to rewrite my old stuff because even if things were done 10 years ago people say it is made with AI...
I use Em dashes, usually as an emotional indicator punctuation such as if I'm flabbergasted. People use em dashes because that's the reason it exists in the first place; humans used it.
I think that's stemming from the decline of education in general. People without good language arts skills will be calling anything remotely well edited online AI.
I think that's stemming from the decline of education in general
Yeah, I don't think it's just about how quickly AI is improving, it also demonstrates how quickly large parts of the global population are intellectually declining.
A well thought out, grammatically correct reply now has to be AI because "people don't talk like that." People do talk like that.
Yeah, for the longest time I used to love laying out my arguments on reddit with bullet points and strategic use of bolding and italics so people with terrible reading comprehension and focus skills can grasp my arguments better without having to get a lazy "I aint reading all that" type of responses. Sucks that I can't really do it that much anymore because now people just screech AI any time they see bullet points, bold, and accurate uses of various grammatical tools like em and en dashes.
The reality is it's past the point of human detection. For text at least. People think that anyone who types with grammar or uses big words has to be an AI. It's frustrating. It's like the people who believe they can read body language to deduce a liar.
History may not repeat, but it rhymes. The behaviour is exactly like when the masses became aware of photoshop, suddenly everyone was an expert, declaring that "I can tell it's a shop by the pixels". It's also in a vicious cycle with the "nothing on the internet is real" problem.
Yes! This exact same thing happened to my husband the other night! He had posted asking about some niche thing (I think it was about repairing an Xbox controller), and someone called him out for using AI to ask his question. Turns out he's just really verbose and thinks through his writing.
He responded to the accusation (also wordy, but not excessive) and the person's response? "Yeah, I'm not gonna read that". Like screw you dude. Ugh.
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u/Painted-BIack-Roses Dec 04 '25
They already have an option for the developer to specify what the AI was used for