While scrolling through TikTok today, I came across a post that, honestly, made me question the state of our collective brains. A guy had asked a girl out on Snapchat, and she replied with a long message explaining, quite ruthlessly, why she could never date him. Her tone was piercing and her words were indeed brutal but her grammar? It was impeccable. Every comma, every full stop, was perfectly in place.
This guy posted it online, obviously because he’s hurt and his caption was that all she had to do was say no instead of delivering a whole dissertation of rejection. Fair. But that’s not what got to me. What got me was what I saw in the comments.
One guy actually said, “She definitely used AI to type that. The punctuation is too clean.”
That rubbish nearly made me shut off my phone. Too clean? Since when did knowing how to punctuate a sentence make someone an artificial being? Are we seriously at a point where articulating thoughts clearly makes people assume a robot wrote it?
Maybe I’m overthinking it, but it feels a little insulting. It’s as if we’ve collectively decided that humans are only capable of chaos, that a well-placed semicolon is suspicious and a coherent paragraph must have come from a machine. What happened to the days when we actually paid attention in English class? Some of us took writing seriously. We cared about words, how they sounded, how they felt, how they looked on paper. We weren’t doing it to impress anyone. We just wanted our sentences to read like art.
And now, because of AI, people assume that anything that sounds too polished must be artificial. Anyway, newsflash, not everyone slept through grammar lessons. Some of us actually loved them. Some of us still think about the rhythm of a sentence before hitting the post button.
Yes that girl was rude but he shouldn’t have dragged grammar into it. It’s not okay to assume fluency equals fakery. Some of us still bleed poetry through punctuation. Some of us still love language for what it can do.
And if that makes us sound like AI, then maybe the machines are finally learning from us not the other way around.
Bruh, like it's not my fault you didn't go to a good primary/secondary school.
It's just like the use of em dash. Me that was taught rather meticulously on its usage since I was little now has to remove it from every writeup I make, because they'll say it was written by AI.🤡
This!!! Most of them probably went to good schools but instead of paying attention and working hard towards speaking/writing well, they were concerned with talking down on the ones who took it seriously and calling them "ITK".
I didn’t even want to talk about this one. A symbol that is used to indicate a writer’s thoughts is now a writing style largely attributed to AI. How convenient!
Beautifully said — this really captures how unfair those assumptions can be. There’s a big difference between sounding polished and being artificial. Writing well doesn’t make someone less human; it shows thought, care, and love for language. I especially love your line about “bleeding poetry through punctuation” — that’s powerful and true. Maybe it’s time people start recognizing that authenticity can sound eloquent too.
Thank you
In the times of brain rot that infests the online world - having intelligence is an abnormal state. I am also thinking that a fair bit of this, comments especially, are AI generated. Maybe not the initial content starting it all, but for SURE many comments are AI these days. The dead internet theory!
I agree. But the automated world will have to deal with it. It’s evident that the line between human and automated content is getting blurry, but there are humans out here who still enjoy using their brains to write and also perform tasks.
I’ve come across lots of AI generated comments. Most of the time, these comments don’t relate to the actual post. Sometimes, it does but it goes really straight to the point almost like summarizing the content. I ignore such when I come across it.
I think I’ve come across this same post. It’s crazy how this has become a thing. I’ve seen so many posts where people are criticized for their use of impeccable grammar and I honestly don’t get it. Why do these illiterates always want to project themselves onto others? They should do better honestly