alt Hacker NewsMy teenager recently asked me why I write like a chatbot, apparently unaware that some human beings prefer to write in complete sentences with attention to details like spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization, and that LLMs were trained on this sort of writing.
This makes me think of the fad where people on youtube will hold a microphone up in frame, because it somehow connotes authenticity. I'm sure some people are already embracing a bit of sloppiness in their writing as a signal of humanity; I'm equally sure that future chatbots will learn to do the same.
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> people on youtube will hold a microphone up in frame,
Now you need a really big microphone, something that looks like it was built in 1952.
If you are using a dynamic microphone, most of the time it will be in frame because best distance is around 7cm from your mouth.
The creator of OpenClaw, for example, has come to appreciate grammatical / spelling errors in human writing (as he said in a recent Lex Fridman interview).
I started making deliberate grammar and spelling mistakes in professional context. Not like I have a perfect writing anyway, but at least I could prove that it was self-written, not an auto-generated slop. (Could be self-written slop though :)
This applies not only work-stuff itself also to the job-applications/cv/resume and cover-letters.
I got similar accusations recently on reddit lol. Just because i am used to formatting markdown i like to format some of my reddit comments. i have no idea how to avoid the accusations besides typing less formally except by typing like thisss.
2040 at Wal-Mart:
- Customer: Excuse me, I'm looking for the Aunt Jemima maple syrup. Can you point me in the right direction?
- Employee: y u ask like chatbot