A useful new expression: AI breath. It’s associated with writing that feels stale and impersonal. As AI-generated prose becomes easier to spot, we’ll likely be getting more and more whiffs of AI breath. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Spotting AI Breath”
One expression that I’ve been tracking just recently, I’ve seen it in a few social media posts, and it’s AI breath.
Isn’t that great?
AI breath refers to writing that’s stale and lacks personality.
You know, it has AI breath.
Oh, I thought you were talking about when you have the AI talk to you and it does these fake pauses as if it really needs to breathe.
Oh.
It really does, though.
But the AI breath that I see on social media is lots of short sentences, one or two words, maybe three, but one right after the other.
Yeah.
You know, it’ll say, hold, breathe, think about it.
And it just like, there’s, it just takes a while to get to the point.
Oh, gosh.
I think we’re going to get to the point where the same way that we can recognize when drones became a thing and making movies and television, everybody had to use a drone.
Right.
We’re going to look back at this era and say, oh, yeah, that was the AI era.
That was when people were giving their creativity over to machines.
Yeah.
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