Post by @IMALlama@lemmy.world

2026-11-11 15:10 UTC

This reads like it was written by an AI. I don’t know how I feel about this to be honest. I probably would have never heard about it otherwise, since reaserching and writing takes time and humans seem to have less and less free time. There’s also very little money for this kind of journalism these days, so it’s not easy to get paid to do this. On the other hand, I suspect our writing patterns are going to start to shift pretty significantly over the next few years. Some examples that stood out to me: The answer came in October as claim charts Specifically the “came in” clause. I’ve seen that a ton over the past year, but don’t recall this phrase before then. That is where Mike Lothian’s (FireBurn) Vino comes in as an open alternative. Another “came in” like clause, but I also find it interesting that open alternative is placed so far away from the noun. Something like “Mike Lothian developed FireBurn as an open alternative” On October 7, Synaptics said it would grant no patent license Convention would move the negative before grant.

Replies (4)

@tyler@programming.dev 2026-11-11 15:54

Agreed. The “came in” is popping up more and more. I’m guessing it’s watermarking since it doesn’t make any sense at all usually.

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@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-11-11 16:43

To me, all of the quotes in question just read as especially formal journalistic English. Especially that last one ‘Synaptics said it would grant no patent license’ is just a more formal phrasing that is pretty standard for e.g. newspaper writing, especially if you look at how the sentence structure puts the date first, then the quoted party, then the paraphrase of what they said. Very normal newspaper style. I haven’t read the article yet but these quotes you pulled out in particular don’t read as AI to me, as a software engineer who talks to Claude all day for work. Will update once I’ve read the article.

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@Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2026-11-11 17:29

The idiom “Came in” has been in common use since the last 1800’s. You can find it on Google’s N-Gram search. Heck it appears in Shakespeare! idioms.thefreedictionary.com/came+in

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@DarkMetatron@feddit.org 2026-11-12 09:27

I would have written it mostly the same, and I am not an AI but a german guy who learned English as secondary language. I got a huge part of my vocabulary by reading tons of nonfictional text (mostly technical documentation and legal texts), and this has shaped my speaking and writing to be very formal and technical. So it could just be written by someone who is not a native speaker and therefore has an english that sounds/reads odd.

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