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When a client has even the smallest possible request of me

From The Chicagoan, March 28, 1931

Another clue you can spot in this story before getting into the meaning of words is the repetition of syntactical structure. Two consecutive paragraphs end with the same "[subject] [verb]. [same subject] [different verb]." punchline-thing. AI gets hung on repeating one idea often

You can do a lot to detect AI prose _visually_ without even reading the words. First clue for me is the paragraphs are almost all approximately the same size. Human writers tend to vary paragraph length a lot more, consciously or not.

At the Forbidden City

This is how I look to my girlfriend across the room while I'm gaming

I often find myself saying this

That's what I'm fuckin saying, united

Most things in the news these days

caught mid-tweet

Google's "ai overview" is so stupid. Its text reply here in the first pic clearly "guesses" I'm searching for a quote, but thinks it doesn't exist. Then the same words in quotes instantly finds the source. My conclusion: it's just a text block for an unmodified pre-AI search

Willing to bet a small amount of money my opponent hasn't been backranked like that before

I'd believe the Hershey's are Methodist but not convinced about the Reese's