Dear Linux community,

In these unpredictable and often challenging times, I feel it’s more important than ever to pause and share heartfelt wishes. Merry Christmas to each and every one of you!

Let this holiday season be a moment of peace, where you can step back, breathe, and find some calm amidst the chaos. Take the opportunity to reconnect, reflect, and perhaps even find inspiration for the year ahead.

May your days be filled with joy, your systems stay secure, and your kernels remain stable. Here’s to a festive season full of positivity and open-source spirit!

Warm wishes,

Your fellow penguin at heart.

P.S.: I had very little time, so the whole thing, was AI accelerated! Please forgive me :-)

  • il Dorato@lemmy.world
    183·
    2 months ago

    I don’t know why everyone is saying it reads weird or its AI slop. To me it seemed pretty normal while reading, but I guess I’m so used to everything being written by AI nowadays I didn’t notice at first. How do you all spot it usually?

    • fool@programming.dev
      38·
      2 months ago

      AI structure can be pretty obvious if you know which English weapons it loves to spam. Let’s walk it through (sorry for the wall of text lmfao):

      I skip the image because the chimney mistake and overdone shading is obvious

      1. Corporate style.
        • “In these unpredictable and often challenging times” – This is very corporate. How many messages have you seen like this during the pandemic? Buuut just because it’s soulless doesn’t mean it’s AI, but I wouldn’t expect it from a community of this archetype. (ai suspicion +1)
      2. Tricolons, especially ascending. (source)
        • This is something ChatGPT loves. Essentially, there are three “things” in a sentence, sometimes clauses. Sometimes each one is larger than the last (ascending), e.g. “I honed my skills in research, collaboration, and problem-solving.” And it appears a lot even in this short snippet
        • “…you can step back, breathe, and find some calm amidst the chaos”. The third element is longer. Ascension spotted. (ai suspicion +2)
        • “May your days be filled with joy, your systems stay secure, and your kernels remain stable.” Elements are successively syllabically longer. Ascension spotted. (ai suspicion +2)
        • “Take the opportunity to reconnect, reflect, and perhaps even find inspiration for the year ahead.” Third element is longer. Ascension spotted. How funny – three tricolons! Three three three three (ai suspicion +2)
      3. Obsession with superficial positivity.
        • ChatGPT, even when making stories about evil, is very partial to love, friendship, joy, making up, peace, tranquility, (pseudo) “unconventional” friendship. Excessive meaningless positivity is an archetype too, though ChatGPT’s factgivings are usually neutral-positive.
        • “more important than ever to pause and share heartfelt wishes” Share wishes. Would a human on c/linux say something like that without elaborating further about wishing for something, perhaps death to Windows users? (ai suspicion +1)
        • “moment of peace” “find some calm” “positivity” “open-source spirit” but they never talk deeper, again. (ai suspicion +1)

      So yeah this is at least 90% OpenAI. Too fuckin’ bad.

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
        9·
        2 months ago

        I will have to stop manually typing ascending tricons. LOL. I have used them often in correspondence and documents. It was a technique taught in English class.

        • fool@programming.dev
          6·
          2 months ago

          Only if there’s too many is it a worry. I use it now and then bc I LOVE things in threes (I’m not Ben Affleck I swear), but…

          in the above, the tricolon bonanza is insane – how can you fit that many in such a short text?

          You probably don’t need to cut down :)

    • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      8·
      2 months ago

      Text may not be AI, image definitely is. Usually everything in AI images glows slightly, like here. And the placement of Tux in the sky has no rhyme or reason.