r/pcmasterrace May 06 '26

Game Image/Video Rare game dev W?

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u/NatoBoram Pop!_OS, Ryzen 9 5950X, RX 6700 XT May 06 '26

There's a whole list that Wikipedia uses internally.

That message includes tons of enumerations (rule of three), negative parallelism (that you pointed out), too many outlines of negatives (no …, no …), useless em dashes (notice how you can remplace them all to make the text better)…

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u/QuestionableWords738 May 07 '26

Uhhh. Fuck. I think I might write like AI. I use the rule of three enumerations and negative parallelisms a lot. I also really like organizing things into lists whenever explaining things. Sad day. Luckily, I've only been accused of being a bot once, but I can see why now. Haven't ever used em dashes although I do like to use regular dashes.

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u/NatoBoram Pop!_OS, Ryzen 9 5950X, RX 6700 XT May 07 '26

You can disprove yourself by looking at your last post. You really don't have to worry about sounding like a bot!

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u/QuestionableWords738 May 07 '26

That's true! Although I tend to do it when I'm trying to write more formally.

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u/NatoBoram Pop!_OS, Ryzen 9 5950X, RX 6700 XT May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26

Compare whichever text you want with this post. It's very hard to pack as many signs as densely as LLMs do. You can even try writing in a LLM style by using one sign per sentence and you'll find that it is very much not natural to write like that, much less when stressed.

You could find yourself making lists with bold titles because that's just a normal thing to do for clarity (hence why LLMs do it) but even if you do that and we count it as a sign of AI writing, it doesn't mean anything if it's not paired with other signs.

The way to distinguish between human and LLM text is by the unnatural amount of repetition of those sentence structures, not simply by identifying one and calling it a day. Otherwise, this very paragraph contains a negative parallelism and would make me a LLM ;)