Fuck AI

To be honest, I'm using them too. I don't know where I picked it up – books, probably – or whether I'm using them right. I don't think I ever formally learned them, and if I did, it'll have been in German and I have no idea how that transfers to Englush. I also produce slop, but that's on me being an inept writer.

That's why I find such "that's gotta be AI" judgements a bit awkward: it might genuinely be a person poorly trying to ape some writing style they saw but never understood. Just because I'm trying to sound "proper" doesn't mean I'm an AI. My intelligence (or ignorance?) is entirely natural.

Edit: Come to think, I might have picked them up from a certain colleague. MBA, (ab-?)uses them all the time, sometimes in places that seem weird to me, and has done so before LLMs became such a hype. Maybe there's some school of management writing that LLMs are trying to imitate, but without any actual semantic sense for the context, neither they nor I use them in actually valid constructions?