I skimmed this criticism of Pokimane and got to the fourth paragraph before I realized I was reading a chatGPT output. The emdashes are the most obvious giveaway, but the constant restatements and trouble with building conclusions are also clear tells, if a little more subtle.
In this case I agree overall with the post, but GPT (or grok - they all write the same) argued the point for the poster and did a mediocre job overall, especially for a post with 3M views. More troubling is that the guy insists he wrote the whole thing himself, which has apparently fooled thousands of people. He's far from the only one, either. It's not uncommon to see people using AI to respond to an argument.
I don't know where this is going. AI is a powerful force multiplier, but if more and more people outsource their writing to it, we will eventually get to a soft version of dead internet theory where real people are volleying back and forth with GPT responses but don't fully understand what they're saying to each other. Scammers and grifters will almost be indistinguishable, superficially. I'm surprised the Indian contingent hasn't figured out how to use GPT outputs en masse, but I'm sure it's coming.
The only hope is that people will develop enough AI literacy to recognize automated content. We'll see if this happens.
I sometimes lurk around where lefty men are daring to approach the edge of the reservation because feminism sucks so much, to try and subtly red pill them all the way to the truth.
They're very prone to using LLMs to write their responses when things get tough. It's super obvious because half of them write in walls of text at a 3rd grade level. Then you challenge their preconceptions and you suddenly start getting properly capitalized, paragraphed, and bulletpointed responses.
I think it's due to some kind of pseudo-religious zeal. They fully believe the things they have been told, but realize they're too retarded to defend them from the arguments against it themselves. So they figure because it's already "true" the AI that's already smarter than them can explain that "fact" to me for them.
I remember getting into an argument about something elon related on reddit and after some back and forth the guy literally just said "here's what chatgpt says about it, it agrees with me so I win"
my first mistake was being on reddit so I just tabbed out.
It's bizarre but I literally had this happen during a discussion on similar topics. You have to be very careful how you redpill people on social media, but a guy literally did exactly what you mentioned.
I was dismantling whatever he was saying (I honestly can't even remember what the exact topic was, but had to deal with the typical implosion of society from feminist ideology), and his retort consisted of this multi-paragraph diatribe with bullet points.
I thought about that when I read your paragraph there because of how ridiculous it was to see someone actually use that tactic. I think I even called him out on it and he didn't bother responding.