Engines love to consume lengthy content and rank it higher on search. ChatGPT can generate tons of additional meaningful text for the idea. However, as a reader, I prefer to read content written by humans and for humans. I’d rather read meaningful ideas in ugly sentences with simple words and poor grammar than AI-assisted beautiful novellas with a summary and headlines.
In that context, bad grammar, slang, lower-case text, and such can be a form of anti-language that identifies the post as human-written and non-AI-augmented. It can be a feature, not a bug (now I have an excuse to turn off Grammarly lol).
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I love ugly sentences with simple words. It’s raw, it’s real, it’s me.
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Less is more 🙂
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Very true. I have to keep reminding myself that.
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Such a thought provoking piece. Many thanks.
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Thanks! I catch myself evaluating posts as potential AI and after they start looking like AI, 90% of the appeal is gone.
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If it’s any help, I guarantee, hand over heart, that none of my posts use AI..
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Yeah, your posts are great 🙂 Perhaps add a typo here and there? 😉
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Is that what you have to do to avoid being thought non-human? I hate sloppy text!
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Well, any anti-language (including random typos) can be adopted by bots, especially given that bloggers can add the mistakes manually.
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I doubt my posts are worthy of that kind of attention. I do wish they generated more comments though. One has no way of knowing if people actually read the stuff.
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People likely read the content even if they don’t engage with it. Most people wouldn’t even click a like because they’d be logged out.
Getting a comment is a rare and special event, at least for me.
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Thanks Veselin. That’s a really helpful and encouraging reply.
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Fudge I’ve caught myself doing that too and it sucks to have to. Now I always suspect them and I wish I didn’t. They’ve had great posts in the past but. . . why would anyone do that? For stats? That’s the opposite of my punk publishing philosophy, and makes me fear for creativity.
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The hardest part is to differentiate between posts written by AI and posts written to make Google happy. These can look almost AI-written and still be humans writing for the engine.
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Good point.
Also with all the typos, errors that text will be far meaningful and relatable
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I wonder, though, if we’re not laying ourselves open to the accusation that bloggers and social media in general are causing the gradual disintegration of the English language. I’m for ‘supple, lucid, periodic prose’ as Joyce would have put it. Well written prose (or poetry if that’s your gift) will ultimately sink in more deeply, and invite people to return to it. Grateful to those who like and comment on my writing. It means a great deal.
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I don’t think we are causing the disintegration of the language. We just use what’s current. The engines push back against change – google favors long texts with subtitles and keywords, and ChatGPT generates text based on old people’s writings. Both push for their algorithmic agenda
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Thank you for this interesting insight into how blogs get out there and connect with people. I think I fall into the category of old people’s writing – for better, or for worse. For better, I hope.
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Apologies for using the word old that way, now that I read it, it reads terrible. I meant something else. ChatGPT is trained on content that could be centuries old. It’s also trained on the writing of scientists, writers, bloggers and so on. The default is more Charles Dickens than whatever we use. So old in a sense of from the past.
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Thanks Veselin. No offence taken at all. It’s interesting the way what we read, or have read in earlier life, shapes our own writing, even if we’re not aware of it. I know I’m influenced, subconsciously, by whatever good writer of novels I happen to be reading. If the writing isn’t up to the kind of standards I’ve grown to appreciate, I tend not to stay with the book. I also find that the older I get, the more likely I am to return to the classics – a very broad category though.
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I agree with you. I am not an English native speaker (I speak and read English every day, but my first language is Japanese). Sometimes I use English grammar checking tools, but it doesn’t work well. The translation between English and Japanese is terrible, so I translate by myself every time. I am a Japanese teacher. As my observation, teaching foreign language jobs tend to change to ChatGPT and other tools. One of my learners uses ChatGPT to learn new Japanese vocabulary. I don’t complain, but I don’t know if it is an effective way to learn Japanese. Maybe, as a supplemental material, it would be OK…🤔😅
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Japanese is a very difficult language for Bulgarians. Even the alphabet looks incomprehensible 🙂 I hope to visit the country one day and enjoy not understanding anything for a week or two.
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I try to have mistake-free blogs and I do not use AI although I was accused of it two weeks ago. I often post something three or four times if I catch an error. If it is an old person thing, so be it. After having read (and agreed with) most of Lorraine’s comments, I, too, worry about the disintegration of the English language. Some of the things I see written nowadays drive me crazy, and I don’t want to stoop to that level even if it is becoming “normalized.” Just my opinion. ~Nan
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