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In the age of AI-spam, I now treat typos in webpages as a good sign (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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I used to think typos meant that the author (and/or editor) hadn't checked what they wrote, so the article was likely poor quality and less trustworthy. Now I'm reassured that it's a human behind it and not a glorified word-prediction algorithm.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I worked creating mass content for lots of websites, from product descriptions, to reviews and posts messages. We just inserted random typos after running Quillbot on the text and added ellipsis here and there sometimes.

I think someone in the team had a list of words they purposely changed in MS Word so that they could be misspelled all the time.

Now that ChatGPT let's you insert your custom global instructions I'm absolutely sure they are asking for it to misspell about 2% of the words in the text and talk in a more coloquial fashion.

As things stand right now, I don't think there is a discernible way to see if something was written by AI or not and relying on typos is not a wise thing to do.