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FaviFake: Undo revision 407332 by 204.102.51.15 (talk) yes it does, at least in my experience

2026-02-28T10:40:56Z

Undo revision 407332 by 204.102.51.15 (talk) yes it does, at least in my experience

204.102.51.15: /* Explanation */ Changed wording; ChatGPT doesn't just use em dashes "occasionally"

2026-02-27T17:19:00Z

‎Explanation: Changed wording; ChatGPT doesn't just use em dashes "occasionally"

CalibansCreations: /* Explanation */

2025-09-16T16:53:22Z

‎Explanation

1234231587678 at 20:49, 2 September 2025

2025-09-02T20:49:02Z

71.46.92.136: Undo revision 384930 by 2001:67C:2628:647:32:704:0:357 (talk)

2025-08-24T18:18:54Z

Undo revision 384930 by 2001:67C:2628:647:32:704:0:357 (talk)

2001:67C:2628:647:32:704:0:357 at 17:57, 24 August 2025

2025-08-24T17:57:06Z

FaviFake: /* Explanation */

2025-08-12T20:51:53Z

‎Explanation

FaviFake: /* Explanation */ not sure this isn't an acn, From the [[explain xkcd:Editor FAQ#citation|Editor FAQ § [Citation needed]:]] "This template should only be placed when there is a deeper sense of humor and should not be overused."

2025-08-12T20:51:35Z

‎Explanation: not sure this isn't an acn, From the Editor FAQ § [Citation needed]: "This template should only be placed when there is a deeper sense of humor and should not be overused."

Mathmaster at 20:47, 12 August 2025

2025-08-12T20:47:31Z

FaviFake: actually i think it's because they have neither

2025-08-12T06:57:58Z

actually i think it's because they have neither

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 This comic shows a message written by [[Cueball]] (likely representing [[Randall]]). The combination of a user profile image, metadata, and the body of text (not to mention the reference to a forum in the title text), suggest this is a posting on a forum. At the end — possibly as an automatically appended forum signature — he includes a disclaimer pre-emptively denying that the content was produced by ChatGPT, and that this is just the way he is.
-{{w|ChatGPT}} is a {{w|large language model}}, a type of {{w|generative artificial intelligence}} designed to produce human-like text. In 2025, at the time of this comic’s release, tools like ChatGPT had become widely used for composing everything from professional emails to casual forum posts. Chatbots tend to be verbose.  One side effect of this trend is that genuine, naturally long-form writing is sometimes mistaken for AI-generated content. People may become suspicious not only of length and thoroughness, but also of stylistic markers such as formally correct punctuation&#x2009;—&#x2009;particularly the {{w|Dash#Em_dash|em dash}}&#x2009;—&#x2009;which is uncommon among average internet users, but often favored by ChatGPT.
+{{w|ChatGPT}} is a {{w|large language model}}, a type of {{w|generative artificial intelligence}} designed to produce human-like text. In 2025, at the time of this comic’s release, tools like ChatGPT had become widely used for composing everything from professional emails to casual forum posts. Chatbots tend to be verbose.  One side effect of this trend is that genuine, naturally long-form writing is sometimes mistaken for AI-generated content. People may become suspicious not only of length and thoroughness, but also of stylistic markers such as formally correct punctuation&#x2009;—&#x2009;particularly the {{w|Dash#Em_dash|em dash}}&#x2009;—&#x2009;which is uncommon among average internet users, but occasionally favored by ChatGPT.
 The title text explains the context. It notes that some people claim no human would compose a meticulously organized essay about {{w|Tom Bombadil}}, a relatively minor character from ''{{w|The Lord of the Rings}}'', especially if it contains the word "delve". This word is perceived as atypical in everyday conversation, yet is [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt frequently used by ChatGPT]. Randall implies that he would write such an essay, and in fact has. The choice of “delve” may also  be a deliberate reference to Gandalf’s line in ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' about the Dwarves who “[[760: Moria|delved too greedily and too deep]],” or perhaps to “Michel Delving,” the largest Hobbit settlement in the Shire, whose name literally means “large excavation.” He also says this is unfortunate for both of them: the person he's talking to for having jumped to the wrong assumption about the nature of the author, and Randall for having wasted so much of his time writing about a minor topic.

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 This comic shows a message written by [[Cueball]] (likely representing [[Randall]]). The combination of a user profile image, metadata, and the body of text (not to mention the reference to a forum in the title text), suggest this is a posting on a forum. At the end — possibly as an automatically appended forum signature — he includes a disclaimer pre-emptively denying that the content was produced by ChatGPT, and that this is just the way he is.
-{{w|ChatGPT}} is a {{w|large language model}}, a type of {{w|generative artificial intelligence}} designed to produce human-like text. In 2025, at the time of this comic’s release, tools like ChatGPT had become widely used for composing everything from professional emails to casual forum posts. Chatbots tend to be verbose.  One side effect of this trend is that genuine, naturally long-form writing is sometimes mistaken for AI-generated content. People may become suspicious not only of length and thoroughness, but also of stylistic markers such as formally correct punctuation&#x2009;—&#x2009;particularly the {{w|Dash#Em_dash|em dash}}&#x2009;—&#x2009;which is uncommon among average internet users, but occasionally favored by ChatGPT.
+{{w|ChatGPT}} is a {{w|large language model}}, a type of {{w|generative artificial intelligence}} designed to produce human-like text. In 2025, at the time of this comic’s release, tools like ChatGPT had become widely used for composing everything from professional emails to casual forum posts. Chatbots tend to be verbose.  One side effect of this trend is that genuine, naturally long-form writing is sometimes mistaken for AI-generated content. People may become suspicious not only of length and thoroughness, but also of stylistic markers such as formally correct punctuation&#x2009;—&#x2009;particularly the {{w|Dash#Em_dash|em dash}}&#x2009;—&#x2009;which is uncommon among average internet users, but often favored by ChatGPT.
 The title text explains the context. It notes that some people claim no human would compose a meticulously organized essay about {{w|Tom Bombadil}}, a relatively minor character from ''{{w|The Lord of the Rings}}'', especially if it contains the word "delve". This word is perceived as atypical in everyday conversation, yet is [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt frequently used by ChatGPT]. Randall implies that he would write such an essay, and in fact has. The choice of “delve” may also  be a deliberate reference to Gandalf’s line in ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' about the Dwarves who “[[760: Moria|delved too greedily and too deep]],” or perhaps to “Michel Delving,” the largest Hobbit settlement in the Shire, whose name literally means “large excavation.” He also says this is unfortunate for both of them: the person he's talking to for having jumped to the wrong assumption about the nature of the author, and Randall for having wasted so much of his time writing about a minor topic.

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 {{w|ChatGPT}} is a {{w|large language model}}, a type of {{w|generative artificial intelligence}} designed to produce human-like text. In 2025, at the time of this comic’s release, tools like ChatGPT had become widely used for composing everything from professional emails to casual forum posts. Chatbots tend to be verbose.  One side effect of this trend is that genuine, naturally long-form writing is sometimes mistaken for AI-generated content. People may become suspicious not only of length and thoroughness, but also of stylistic markers such as formally correct punctuation&#x2009;—&#x2009;particularly the {{w|Dash#Em_dash|em dash}}&#x2009;—&#x2009;which is uncommon among average internet users, but occasionally favored by ChatGPT.
-The title text explains the context. It notes that some people claim no human would compose a meticulously organized essay about {{w|Tom Bombadil}}, a relatively minor character from ''The Lord of the Rings'', especially if it contains the word "delve". This word is perceived as atypical in everyday conversation, yet is [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt frequently used by ChatGPT]. Randall implies that he would write such an essay, and in fact has. The choice of “delve” may also  be a deliberate reference to Gandalf’s line in ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' about the Dwarves who “[[760|delved too greedily and too deep]],” or perhaps to “Michel Delving,” the largest Hobbit settlement in the Shire, whose name literally means “large excavation.” He also says this is unfortunate for both of them: the person he's talking to for having jumped to the wrong assumption about the nature of the author, and Randall for having wasted so much of his time writing about a minor topic.
+The title text explains the context. It notes that some people claim no human would compose a meticulously organized essay about {{w|Tom Bombadil}}, a relatively minor character from ''{{w|The Lord of the Rings}}'', especially if it contains the word "delve". This word is perceived as atypical in everyday conversation, yet is [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt frequently used by ChatGPT]. Randall implies that he would write such an essay, and in fact has. The choice of “delve” may also  be a deliberate reference to Gandalf’s line in ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' about the Dwarves who “[[760: Moria|delved too greedily and too deep]],” or perhaps to “Michel Delving,” the largest Hobbit settlement in the Shire, whose name literally means “large excavation.” He also says this is unfortunate for both of them: the person he's talking to for having jumped to the wrong assumption about the nature of the author, and Randall for having wasted so much of his time writing about a minor topic.
 The presence of the em dash in the disclaimer further fuels the joke. Em dashes are seen by many as an indicator that a piece of text was AI-generated; although they have been a long-standing (even pre-GPT) feature of both Randall's comics and this site's user-written explanations, which of course does not disprove the more general observation being alluded to. The comic is also likely to be have been written specifically as a response to the release of {{w|GPT-5}}, the day before this comic was published.

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 {{w|ChatGPT}} is a {{w|large language model}}, a type of {{w|generative artificial intelligence}} designed to produce human-like text. In 2025, at the time of this comic’s release, tools like ChatGPT had become widely used for composing everything from professional emails to casual forum posts. Chatbots tend to be verbose.  One side effect of this trend is that genuine, naturally long-form writing is sometimes mistaken for AI-generated content. People may become suspicious not only of length and thoroughness, but also of stylistic markers such as formally correct punctuation&#x2009;—&#x2009;particularly the {{w|Dash#Em_dash|em dash}}&#x2009;—&#x2009;which is uncommon among average internet users, but occasionally favored by ChatGPT.
-The title text explains the context. It notes that some people claim no human would compose a meticulously organized essay about {{w|Tom Bombadil}}, a relatively minor character from ''The Lord of the Rings'', especially if it contains the word "delve". This word is perceived as atypical in everyday conversation, yet is [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt frequently used by ChatGPT]. Randall implies that he would write such an essay, and in fact has. The choice of “delve” may also  be a deliberate reference to Gandalf’s line in ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' about the Dwarves who “delved too greedily and too deep,” or perhaps to “Michel Delving,” the largest Hobbit settlement in the Shire, whose name literally means “large excavation.” He also says this is unfortunate for both of them: the person he's talking to for having jumped to the wrong assumption about the nature of the author, and Randall for having wasted so much of his time writing about a minor topic.
+The title text explains the context. It notes that some people claim no human would compose a meticulously organized essay about {{w|Tom Bombadil}}, a relatively minor character from ''The Lord of the Rings'', especially if it contains the word "delve". This word is perceived as atypical in everyday conversation, yet is [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt frequently used by ChatGPT]. Randall implies that he would write such an essay, and in fact has. The choice of “delve” may also  be a deliberate reference to Gandalf’s line in ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' about the Dwarves who “[[760|delved too greedily and too deep]],” or perhaps to “Michel Delving,” the largest Hobbit settlement in the Shire, whose name literally means “large excavation.” He also says this is unfortunate for both of them: the person he's talking to for having jumped to the wrong assumption about the nature of the author, and Randall for having wasted so much of his time writing about a minor topic.
 The presence of the em dash in the disclaimer further fuels the joke. Em dashes are seen by many as an indicator that a piece of text was AI-generated; although they have been a long-standing (even pre-GPT) feature of both Randall's comics and this site's user-written explanations, which of course does not disprove the more general observation being alluded to. The comic is also likely to be have been written specifically as a response to the release of {{w|GPT-5}}, the day before this comic was published.

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 ==Explanation==
-{{notice2|<big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big><big>CRAPPED{{:{{PAGENAME}}}}}}
 This comic shows a message written by [[Cueball]] (likely representing [[Randall]]). The combination of a user profile image, metadata, and the body of text (not to mention the reference to a forum in the title text), suggest this is a posting on a forum. At the end — possibly as an automatically appended forum signature — he includes a disclaimer pre-emptively denying that the content was produced by ChatGPT, and that this is just the way he is.

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	This comic shows a message written by [[Cueball]] (likely representing [[Randall]]). The combination of a user profile image, metadata, and the body of text (not to mention the reference to a forum in the title text), suggest this is a posting on a forum. At the end — possibly as an automatically appended forum signature — he includes a disclaimer pre-emptively denying that the content was produced by ChatGPT, and that this is just the way he is.		This comic shows a message written by [[Cueball]] (likely representing [[Randall]]). The combination of a user profile image, metadata, and the body of text (not to mention the reference to a forum in the title text), suggest this is a posting on a forum. At the end — possibly as an automatically appended forum signature — he includes a disclaimer pre-emptively denying that the content was produced by ChatGPT, and that this is just the way he is.

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 The title text explains the context. It notes that some people claim no human would compose a meticulously organized essay about {{w|Tom Bombadil}}, a relatively minor character from ''The Lord of the Rings'', especially if it contains the word “delve.” This word is perceived as atypical in everyday conversation, yet is [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt |frequently used by ChatGPT]. Randall implies that he would write such an essay, and in fact has. The choice of “delve” may also  be a deliberate reference to Gandalf’s line in ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' about the Dwarves who “delved too greedily and too deep,” or perhaps to “Michel Delving,” the largest Hobbit settlement in the Shire, whose name literally means “large excavation.” He also says this is unfortunate for both of them: the person he's talking to for having jumped to the wrong assumption about the nature of the author, and Randall for having wasted so much of his time writing about a minor topic.
-The presence of the em dash in the disclaimer further fuels the joke. Em dashes are seen by many as an indicator that a piece of text was AI-generated (because few keyboards have it, and more keyboards have the similar En dash.); although they have been a long-standing (even pre-GPT) feature of both Randall's comics and this site's user-written explanations, which of course does not disprove the more general observation being alluded to. The comic is also likely to be have been written specifically as a response to the release of {{w|GPT-5}}, the day before this comic was published.
+The presence of the em dash in the disclaimer further fuels the joke. Em dashes are seen by many as an indicator that a piece of text was AI-generated; although they have been a long-standing (even pre-GPT) feature of both Randall's comics and this site's user-written explanations, which of course does not disprove the more general observation being alluded to. The comic is also likely to be have been written specifically as a response to the release of {{w|GPT-5}}, the day before this comic was published.
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