They are so easily detectable. Nobody actually writes nor talks in patterns AI uses.
But that’s not even the biggest problem.
It’s the agenda - AI doesn’t have any, people do.
The Writing Patterns
There are several high-level indices to immediately tell you that something is AI text.
“Not X but Y “
Em-dash “—”
“✅ the best point ever 🚀”
And then you see how the text leads to its point and others.
Videos or music have similar. Video looks like over-sharpened cartoon. In songs, words are spelled out so precisely and lyrics talk in clear whole sentences.
In code, there are IFs everywhere as if everything is direct user input.
Reason For Reading - an agenda
When you read a human-written article, you know there is something behind it.
You may not agree with that article. Maybe it objectively is a bad piece. Or it’s a malicious text written to manipulate you.
But there is an intention behind it. The author meant something by writing it. And this background matters for understanding the whole text.
If it’s a human written or at least curated text, you may take the article in a way that it:
- is trying to give you news
- is informing you
- is giving you an advice
- is making you buy a product
- is wining a vote
- … just anything
You are deciding what to take from it. Even if it claims to be one thing and you decide in another. You decide based on the text, author’s history whether you know the author or not.
But if the article was written by AI and not curated by a person? The background is just blank. There is nothing.
And if there is no intent, how can you trust anything it says?
The Intent Is Important
Why?
Do you believe in everything that is laying around? Well, research says that most people do. Then, I guess, this article is not for those readers.
I really don’t. I evaluate what I am reading. And “why was this written?” is a big part of it now.
If you decide that the article is a sales piece, you treat it with a grain of salt. If you decide it was written as a news piece, you take it as a news and see what’ll happen. If you see it as a good faith advice, you’ll try to follow it because the author is trying to genuinely help you.
But an advice written by AI - how can you know it’s in a good faith? There is no faith, there is no intent, there is literally nothing behind it once it has obvious AI text patterns.
The same with videos, music made by AI. They are even worse than a filler episode of long running TV show.
AI Used In Process
That’s absolutely fine. That doesn’t take anything from people - both reader and writer.
But there is a huge difference between “AI used” and “Made by AI without me ever seeing it”.
The second, I don’t accept and mostly I recognize those pieces clearly.