How weird can people get?

Seems that people looking for love online are using ChatGPT. I didn’t have the stamina to make it all the way through that article, I ran out of steam around here…the description of an E-cad or should it be iCad?

" The majority of Chatfishers say they would never dream of letting AI do all of their talking. Most are like 38-year-old Londoner Nick, who sees it as a tool to help foster stronger connections with app matches. He works in tech and lives with his girlfriend; they’re in an open relationship and both date other people casually. He sometimes uses ChatGPT in his conversations on the dating apps Feeld and Bumble. “If I’m using a dating app,” he says, “I want to start a conversation that feels meaningful from the beginning so I can hook the other person in – but also I don’t want to spend too much time on it. Equally, while I want it to be ‘meaningful’, I don’t necessarily want to get super heavy and emotional straight away – it feels like quite a balancing act.” ChatGPT, he says, helps him tread that fine line: offering enough charm to spark a connection, without the investment of time or emotional labour that might otherwise feel wasted if the match fizzles out after a handful of messages."

As somebody pnc The majority of Chatfishers say they would never dream of letting AI do all of their talking. Most are like 38-year-old Londoner Nick, who sees it as a tool to help foster stronger connections with app matches. He works in tech and lives with his girlfriend; they’re in an open relationship and both date other people casually. He sometimes uses ChatGPT in his conversations on the dating apps Feeld and Bumble. “If I’m using a dating app,” he says, “I want to start a conversation that feels meaningful from the beginning so I can hook the other person in – but also I don’t want to spend too much time on it. Equally, while I want it to be ‘meaningful’, I don’t necessarily want to get super heavy and emotional straight away – it feels like quite a balancing act.” ChatGPT, he says, helps him tread that fine line: offering enough charm to spark a connection, without the investment of time or emotional labour that might otherwise feel wasted if the match fizzles out after a handful of messages.

To simultaneously plagiarise and paraphrase, as somebody once said, " sincerity is everything in life, once you can fake that you’ve got it made".

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Having spent almost 40 years exchanging electronic communications with humans, I can spot AI generated a mile off due to it being grammatically correct, using contractions properly and not containing any spelling mistakes (though AI often uses the export version of English).

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So what do you think about the use of the Oxford comma? I’ve read that people think that any use of the Oxford comma means that it’s AI generated, but I know that a lot of people actually do use it. Or is it an AI and “old people” thing?

What on earth is an Oxford comma?

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The modern day Cyrano de Bergerac

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Can make a big different.

‘We invited my parents, Thomas and Nancy “. Without comma and 2 people for dinner

“We invited my parents, Thomas, and Nancy. “ With comma and 4 people for dinner

I’m sure you use it instinctively

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So it’s an:

:slight_smile:

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Well, I use it and I’m old, so I guess so…“I like apples, oranges and bananas” basically means the same thing as “I like apples, oranges, and bananas”, but I almost always add the extra comma.

I do wish all this AI stuff would just eff off and die. The human species is turning into a race of zombies in thrall to their machines.

Fortunately it seems that there is an “AI bubble” forming similar to the “dot-com bubble” and hopefully a lot of these intellectual property thieves will go out of business.

(rant over!)

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I think it could be very messy :roll_eyes: it’s embedded in a lot of stuff and big bets have been made on it. Might be time for me to actually read this book I bought in 2002 :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

What a cynical, manipulative person.

As for “the Oxford comma”, it’s almost never necessary. I only ever see it used routinely in American writing, which is ironic.

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I’m not so sure, there are definitely moments when there is a natural pause before one continues with “and”. I write a blog. Sometimes I find I want more than just a comma before an “and”. I will happily start a sentence with “And” when I feel it is appropriate.

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The classic example is “Eats, shoots, and leaves”, versus “Eats shoots, and leaves”, or “Eats shoots and leaves”.

If it helps clarity of meaning, stick one in. :smiley:

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I was born in Cambridge, so anything from Oxford is treated with scorn and contempt.

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Fair - but do you think that its usage indicates that something is AI generated?

I hear that a “Cambridge comma”. Is a full stop. :smiley:

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It would depend on the source. If some text from one of my drinking chums arrived containing any advanced use of English, I’d bet my love spuds on it being AI generated.

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Yes, that’s my point.

Your example shows how the inclusion of commas can change the meaning of something. If a comma aids clarity, it’s necessary.

The Oxford comma is more of a stylistic tic. If you want to do it, go ahead, fill your boots.

However, I reckon there is no sentence which can’t be rewritten to avoid it.

I’m posting on an iPad and I’ve had a drink. Be away with you, Sir, lest I have my man fetch my fighting trousers.

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Of course. But the point about the comma is brevity, with clarity.

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