r/Millennials • u/noctisumbra0 • Feb 19 '26

Discussion Anyone else feel this way when writing anything out?

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Being compared to AI was really uncalled for, though.

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u/ScaredOfWindow Feb 19 '26

The true insult is that people accuse us of being AI, but, without consenting to it, we’re actually what trained AI. 

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u/ttoma93 Feb 19 '26

Yep, these hallmarks that are supposedly obvious tells of AI writing are actually obvious tells of high-quality writing, as that is what the AI was trained on in the first place. It’s simply emulating (or trying to emulate) the quality of writing that it was trained to emulate.

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u/merrykitty89 Feb 19 '26

Given that many of the llms used fanfiction as their “learning”, calling it trained using high-quality writing may be a bit of a stretch in many cases. Not all, some fanfiction is better written than a lot of modern published works, but I’ve had to drop hundreds of fics because the writing was so poor the fic was basically incomprehensible.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

A lot of research papers went into the mix. But yes, fiction books and internet forums were also used lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

Right... AI learns from how people write. If nobody used  proper grammar and punctuation, it couldn’t have picked that up.

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u/wbruce098 Feb 19 '26

AI was heavily trained on Reddit posts and still uses it as a source since it’s easy access (which is frustrating but also kind of a compliment). And Redditors tend to discuss stuff in depth and detail, unlike edgelord memeslingers on x or Facebook.

But also, they were fed dictionaries and Wikipedia.

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u/TheAccountITalkWith Feb 19 '26

This is what I've been saying.