"There are no real ways to tell if something was written by AI so don't even try!" might be true for like, random small snippets of unsourced text you find online that's not really about much of anything, so it can't be fact-checked and there’s not enough text for something about it to feel off, but I think it's clear the piss on the poor reading comprehension site can't fathom that some people are actually better readers and writers than they are lol, and can often tell something is AI slop by the way it’s written with its lack of real content and thought and its weird ass tone (and honestly I haaaate when people go "don't say that a tell of AI writing is awkward language because what about ESL speakers!" because I work with ESL speakers constantly and there's a difference between the registers of ESL speakers and LLM text; the "errors" a human brain makes when speaking one language due to having grown up learning another set of grammar rules and language norms still look different than an LLM using weird language because it has no personality, can't think, and can only shit out words that it’s programmed to see as statistically likely to come next. Like, these people clearly don’t know what ESL speakers actually sound like! Stop using second language learners to defend the honor of plagiarism machine lol)
And! You can tell these people don’t know wtf they’re talking about with ESL because there is no standardized ESL writing. There might be general mistakes or quirks people make (one is making “research” plural, which is actually something an LLM most likely wouldn’t do, because no native speaker will say “I read some researches” but that’s not uncommon with non-native speakers), but the way second language speakers talk and write tends to be influenced by their native language. The writing of a struggling ESL student who speaks Mandarin is probably going to look different from writing by a Russian student or Spanish-speaking student. Again, these mistakes or stylistic differences come from human brains trying to map the whole different system of grammar and pragmatics they grew up with onto another language, not from a literal lack of a brain and thought
The anti-anti-AI people show their ignorance once again here lol. It’s clear these people don’t actually work with ESL speakers and don’t see a lot of ESL writing and are just doing tumblr’s very annoying thing of pulling out a hypothetical struggling person who they could use as a shield against their own bad choices (in this case, using ShitGPT)
