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Maria Lloyd's avatar

I dread to think what Grammarly would think of my writing! As I've mentioned before, my writing is very formulaic as a hang over from academic writing. I get to the point and lay out arguments and I do use words like 'facilitate' and 'at its core'! Hopefully this won't be such an issue for the type of non-fiction writing that I do.

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Adrian Raffill's avatar

Hah! Facilitate and journey are my bugbears! Business-speak has a lot to answer for. But it is recognisable jargon for a specific audience and so justifiable in marketing where the aim is to 'speak the same language' as your readers.

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Richard Stephenson's avatar

Heard an interesting AI story last night. One tube YouTuber was going through the myth of the secret station at Buckingham palace (which is a myth)

The only source he found that believed in it was Google Co-pilot. When the you tuber [Jago Hazzard] traced the Co-pilot’s source it was an April fool joke.

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Richard Stephenson's avatar

Heard on thing with British writers is the use of Americanisms is a clue they may be AI or AI prompted as most of the LLM database is of course from America

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Adrian Raffill's avatar

That'll be hard to distinguish from organic take up of American idiom from cultural influence.

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Richard Stephenson's avatar

Very true. Like what you say about the em dash. The AI is using something that was growing anyway.

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