I was considering adding a permanent disclaimer to every blog post on my site about it not being AI written. Then I relented. Because I don’t have to explain to strangers on the internet that I wrote it myself. I like writing, and even if it is imperfect at times I’m okay with that. But I do catch myself editing my own words multiples times a day. Because I'm less sure if that sentence structure is truly mine or a side effect of me conversing with LLMs so much.

I'm trying to counter this by trying to read more fiction, but for every page that I read, I'm probably reading 50 pages or so of LLM output. So I think this is a battle I'm going to lose out on in the long term. And I can probably only delay the inevitable.

But yeah, I don't like beginning to lose or doubt my own writing voice one bit.

There are two main subjects covered in this and it makes no sense. The first 3/4s deal with the reshaping of language, then the last 1/4 go to talk about Tailwind's layoffs, due to search engines/LLMs upfront providing answers. I don't see the point of the article because it never concludes the two subjects in unity.

The whole dashes debacle never made any sense, because many people are aware if you press and hold the hyphen "button" on your mobile touchscreen, it presents you options with different lengths you can choose from. That it was ever used as a signifier of LLM-written text meant that it can only show a false positive. For the last 20 or so years, a lot of web designers and content creators were "trained" on Elements of Style and other "best practices" cookbooks. People knew when to use what type of dash through these sources, as it gave a bit more of an elegant look to the presentation.

> I take out em dashes and replace them with commas or full stops

Yeah that's your problem. I like my em dashes. You don't need to be ashamed of your style just because it got mainstream. Doesn't matter whether it's AI or a fashion fad. It's like liking a music band before it gets popular on tiktok.

I used to joke about a hypothetical programmer with so much mechanical empathy that he would oppose fuzzers because a program would find it very uncomfortable to be fuzz-tested.

It now occurs to me, non-humorously, that’s what this person and many others are going through with AI: it’s a multi-year fuzz test of their sense of self, their methods for ideation and expression, and their ethical principles on attribution and intellectual property.