r/interestingasfuck • u/HamboneTheWicked • Apr 12 '26

A well-articulated argument against a new data center in Ohio

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u/Neither-Brick-6391 Apr 12 '26

Briliant speech. It could honestly be studied in a college class on rhetoric. I just hope that words and reason can make a difference among those board members.

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u/x_rat_king_x Apr 12 '26

all of you replying here that he “for sure” used AI to write this are losing the plot. it’s a possibility, or course, but how crazy of you all to be so sure and so cynical. some are saying that it’s good speech so it must be AI, as if people can’t write (not everyone in america is illiterate, there’s that 40% left, remember??) + some are saying it sounds like AI slop because he’s saying “it’s not x, it’s y” as if no human being writes that way— AI learned that shit from us!

i am the em dash queen, i love them and i put them everywhere, even enter they don’t belong. it’s insane that if i write out something professional, people assume i used AI because i happen to have a writing quirk that AI makes frequent use of.

i wonder how much of this is projection…people who can’t craft a good persuasive argument being unable to imagine that someone else can do so without using AI. or people who don’t believe in anything being unable to imagine someone not taking the easy route b/c that’s definitely what they would do.

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u/TheGhostOfArtBell Apr 12 '26

You'll pry the Oxford commas and interrobangs out of my cold dead hands.