The UB FILES
#UBRANT Entry13218
How to ACTUALLY spot AI, a guide for idi*ts, student leaders, and professors
Article sana ‘to eh, but I’m too f*ck**g frustrated so buckle your seatbelts. We have completely normalized AI in LEARNING spaces, tapos tayo pa talaga ung may audacity na magcomplain kung bakit kinulang tayo sa media literacy. I am so f**k*ng sick of struggling to catch up with my own groupmates just because I absolutely refuse to use Chatgpt, while they frolic in their little fields of delusion.
WARNING: I will not coddle your egos.
NOTE: Recognizing AI does not mean deeming a work “too perfect”, rather, it’s about using human empathy to resonate with a piece of work. Here’s my little list of tells, please feel free to add more
1. Bullet-form answers. This especially applies to AI’d research and reports, and you’ll recognize the same goddamn format the first prompt. Even if you prompt the AI to reformat it into an essay, you will see those concisely written sentences if you Actually read. You will know what I’m talking about if you’re an avid reader of classics, or if you engage with general media meaningfully. NO HUMAN is ever that concise no matter how passionate or precise they try to be! I know pastors, lawyers, government workers, journalists, even people who are masters in theology who are so incapable of giving the same concision that AI has, no matter how many times the paper’ been edited and rewritten. Humans, from the dawn of f*ck**g time, have always had some kind of special relationship with every information they absorb, with their own special way of communicating them. Have you seriously not noticed how every single group report seems to have the same format? Same flow of information?
2. Clinical language. Soulless bast**ds. This s**t should be obvious, but it’s so normalized because it’s difficult to argue against, or professors/leaders don’t want to bother. It’s so OBVIOUS! It is impersonal! It’s so disconnected from the author! There is an obvious barrier between author and work and we are being deliberately ignorant to it. Even legal work isn’t that f**k**g disconnected from the author. Nothing is ever actually objective.
3. No tone or voice. Don’t even get me f*ck**g started. Even formal language has a voice to it. There is intention and deliberation. Formal language is capable of pushing even the most subtle f*ck**g agendas. People use this all the time to plant little seeds of ideas into minds of others. I urge you to relearn how to empathize with people and reconnect with your own sense of humanity, and you Will see it reflect in any written work.
4. Ai cannot f*ck**g write narrative analyses. Analysis requires interpretation, which requires careful decision-making, which is inherently subjective. If you’ve ever asked it to write your paper for LRIZAL, it most likely produced a soulless piece of tr**h. Do not f*ck**g insult our writers by using AI to analyze their masterful writing. Languages are tools of communication and they shape the way you feel and hope and express your self, even in the most formal of settings.
In ten years’ time, the use of AI will be the very thing that we will STRUGGLE to unlearn from our f**k*ng psyches. Back then, I would giggle at 3 am as I try to sneakily reference a meme for a paper. You have the f**k*ng AUDACITY to tell me that you spent all f**ki*g night to write a paper when all you’ve done is fat-finger your f**k*ng keyboards and let AI do everything? Don’t even bother throwing your little “AI is a tool 🥺” argument at me. Don’t bother telling me that you “curate” the answers you get from AI. You f*ck**g ILL**ERAT*S. You are being CODDLED. You have zero f***ing integrity. You have sold your soul to the de**l. Your dign**y was lost the moment you tapped on that as***le lookin ahh AI logo, and you will be burying it deeper into H**L if you try to even defend it. You have allowed AI to steal away your own perseverance and I am personally grieving it because YOU wouldn’t. If me shaming you away from using AI is what it takes for you f*c***s to stop and reflect, then I’ll make this a habit.
- ung classmate nyong nasa likod