Okay, Fine, I'll Do a Post About AI
I generally try to avoid talking about AI just because I'm sick of it. I'm sick of hearing about it, sick of it existing, etc. But I've seen some posts on the Discovery feed lately about people being afraid their writing resembles AI or afraid they won't be able to recognize AI writing and they'll actually end up liking a post they've read that was generated by an LLM.
Those posts have stayed with me because I'm scared of those things too. Especially the first one, because I possess the quirk of writing in threes and I describe things as "quiet" sometimes.
I dislike em dashes, though. I'll sometimes use "--" in place of them but usually just avoid them altogether. But despite my non-use of em dashes, I'm afraid people will see the other things and think I'm using AI to help with my writing.
I think the "threes" quirk comes from being a Communications major and being taught the rule of three. It's something I've never been able to shake. It feels satisfying to me, and it makes sense that an AI would run with a fairly basic and archaic writing principle.
As for the "quiet" thing, I don't know what that's all about. I'm annoyed that AI has co-opted that word.
AI writing seems to be pretty recognizable right now, but the fact that we're worrying whether our own writing resembles it too much is concerning. What if it gets better? People talk about AI running out of training data, but if humans keep producing more in spite of it (which I hope they do) and AI keeps training on new production, will it improve? What if the tells aren't so easy to find in the future? What if the failure of AI that I'm so desperately hoping for never happens? These are the things that will keep me up at night if I let them.
I've been trying not to worry so much, because this is my blog and I'll write what I want and it doesn't really matter to me if someone thinks it's AI. I've been writing all my life, and I have friends who know me and know my writing style well enough. That's what matters.
I don't really know what the point of this post is. I guess I just wanted to add my voice and share that I'm afraid of these things too. That's all I can do, along with guaranteeing that nothing on this blog will ever be written with AI, even if things are maybe grouped in threes a little too much.