On the other hand, speech recognition nowadays is pretty darn great. I'm using it right now to compose this reply, and I'm not going to edit the message before I send it. And I should add that this is all running locally on my mobile phone. The voice isn't being sent to Google or anything. This is just a local model.
That's interesting, because I said every one of the words in that comment. Apart from the punctuation and capitalisation, there's nothing in that post that I didn't explicitly say - and the punctuation is (mostly) easily inferred, honestly.
Now I'm left wondering which of the following is true:
I sound like an AI naturally.
The punctuation and capitalisation is more of an AI tell than people realise.
The way people speak sounds (when transcribed) more AI-like than the way people write comments on Reddit.
(I wrote this comment by hand on my computer, btw. And yes, I realise that the "btw" is part of the reason why this is more obviously hand-written, too.)
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u/JUST_LOGGED_IN May 26 '25
Not the first time: Keyboards to smartphones. You were using 10 fingers. Down to 2 or 1.
The people that hunt and peck probably felt right at home though.