{"id":1427,"date":"2025-07-31T14:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2025-08-31T17:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T21:27:08","slug":"not-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"Not AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I guess I’m not that surprised to see people spreading the (incorrect) belief that properly used punctuation is a sign of automation. When I was much younger, I would sometimes have online conversations with strangers or acquaintances who would suddenly accuse me of trying to talk smart and using a thesaurus. People aren’t used to communication that follows writing standards appropriate for a published article. They literally think humans don’t write like this unless they are forced to, and that casual communication won’t ever look like this unless it’s cheating.<\/p>\n

And here’s the thing. AI writing DOES sound robotic and soulless! It usually has this weird repetitiveness; doesn’t make a whole lot of sense under examination; purports to be by the same author throughout but changes tone part of the way through; references to events, people, or articles that don’t exist; and doesn’t contain any personal perspectives. Looking for a “telltale” punctuation mark as a cheat sheet–and insisting that no one uses em dashes in real life–is, frankly, just as lazy as using AI to avoid writing your own work in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<–Previous Comic\u00a0 \u00a0Next Comic–>   <–Previous Comic\u00a0 \u00a0Next Comic–> I guess I’m not that surprised to see people spreading the (incorrect) belief that properly used punctuation is a sign of automation. When I was much younger, I would sometimes have online conversations with strangers or acquaintances who would suddenly accuse me of trying to talk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}