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Once or twice, I've heard a Reddit reader on YouTube claim that a story was probably written by ChatGPT because of things like "used em dashes" and "flows so smoothly that I didn't make any mistakes while recording, while most stories by humans make me glitch once or twice".  Um.  Is it ''bad'' to use punctuation correctly?  To polish writing so that it flows smoothly, as story-telling often should? [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 21:07, 8 August 2025 (UTC)
 
Once or twice, I've heard a Reddit reader on YouTube claim that a story was probably written by ChatGPT because of things like "used em dashes" and "flows so smoothly that I didn't make any mistakes while recording, while most stories by humans make me glitch once or twice".  Um.  Is it ''bad'' to use punctuation correctly?  To polish writing so that it flows smoothly, as story-telling often should? [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 21:07, 8 August 2025 (UTC)
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"Delve" is/was specifically a word considered a marker of ChatGPT. See https://news.fsu.edu/news/science-technology/2025/02/17/why-does-chatgpt-delve-so-much-fsu-researchers-begin-to-uncover-why-chatgpt-overuses-certain-words/ [[Special:Contributions/64.203.66.182|64.203.66.182]] 21:19, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

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Is this related to the ChatGPT 5 release

Probably. Barmar (talk) 19:30, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Was anyone tempted to ask ChatGPT to write an explanation of this comic? Barmar (talk) 19:30, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Considering who Tom Bombadil is, anything less than a dissertation-length discussion is incomplete. PS: The captcha wanted me to select pictures that contained parking meters, but it showed what looked like a mailbox. Maybe parking meters look like mailboxes in the parts of Middle Earth that I haven't visited yet. 64.201.132.210 20:23, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Am I the only one wondering if Randall actually made such a post? It would be fun to find but without knowing what LOTR boards he frequents and his screen name, it would be pretty difficult. 47.248.235.170 20:44, 8 August 2025 (UTC)Pat

Who doesn't use the word 'delve'? I've used it since I was a child! 92.23.2.228 20:59, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Once or twice, I've heard a Reddit reader on YouTube claim that a story was probably written by ChatGPT because of things like "used em dashes" and "flows so smoothly that I didn't make any mistakes while recording, while most stories by humans make me glitch once or twice". Um. Is it bad to use punctuation correctly? To polish writing so that it flows smoothly, as story-telling often should? BunsenH (talk) 21:07, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

"Delve" is/was specifically a word considered a marker of ChatGPT. See https://news.fsu.edu/news/science-technology/2025/02/17/why-does-chatgpt-delve-so-much-fsu-researchers-begin-to-uncover-why-chatgpt-overuses-certain-words/ 64.203.66.182 21:19, 8 August 2025 (UTC)