"Atrociously bad": Matt Walsh reacts to post claiming AI writing imitates "top 5% of humans"

Political commentator Matt Walsh has shared his thoughts on AI writing. He believes that AI writing is not as good as human writing, describing it as neat but dull and bland.

With the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a lot of online content has been generated through this technology in recent years. This has also led to a debate around original writing versus AI writing. Many question the authenticity, construction, and other aspects of both types of writing.

Matt Walsh also shared his thoughts on this on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, October 28. He wrote that AI writing is 'obviously' distinguishable from content written by a human. One user commented:

"Put simply, AI writing is generally "too good". It's the writing of a 125+ IQ. That's the top 5% of humans. No mistakes, no grammatical errors, no typos, effusive vocabulary. Once AI begins imitating human errors and bad phraseology, it'll be harder to spot."

Walsh disagreed with this comment and wrote in a quoted post:

"No that’s not it. AI writing is not good writing at all. Much less “too good.” It’s neat, yes. Perfectly spelled and punctuated. This writing itself is atrociously bad, though. Bland and dull and utterly devoid of style or personality. But it’s bad in a bizarre, uncanny way. Bad but perfectly coherent."

"Whereas bad human writing is generally bad because it’s not coherent. Maybe that’s the thing that makes AI slop so easy to spot. It is coherently sh**ty. A weird combination," he added.

He also responded to a teacher mentioning the amount of AI writing they have to witness. He labeled it a "nightmare" and said he couldn't imagine the "AI slop that teachers and professors are dealing with right now."

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Matt Walsh explains why it is easy to distinguish AI writing from original writing

Since AI writing has become prominent, many tools have been developed to catch it on different platforms. Moreover, AI tools have also been progressing to make the writing seem more original and authentic.

However, Matt Walsh believes that it is often easy to identify whether something is written by AI or not. He wrote on X:

"There are clear red flags like “quietly” and “load bearing” but there’s also something less tangible in the rhythm and construction that screams AI but is hard to precisely describe. I can tell when something is AI slop but I can’t always tell how I can tell."

"Yes, there’s the “it’s not x, it’s y” construction. There’s the thing where it asks questions to itself. These are all tells. But even without any of that, it’s still screamingly obvious when writing is AI-generated. It’s at the point now where AI writing is far more obvious than AI video," he added.

Labeling it "interesting," Matt Walsh claimed that this also provided an insight into humans. He said that it is an example of our "innate ability to recognize human consciousness when we encounter it."

He, however, noted that some people are unable to distinguish between real writing and AI writing and hence "pass off the slop" as genuine.

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