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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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[–] orenj@leminal.space 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah fuck ir

I have become more lax because everyone makes mistakes and if your first way to win an argument is to point out spelling or grammar mistakes you're starting on the wrong foot.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Yeah I do the same. Plus I'm prone to a double space which auto capitalizes the next Letter. So now I just delete the period and keep the capital letter. So people know I'm real.

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[–] Miller@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are going out of your way to use a lowercåse i aren''t you.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I call then Freudian autocorrects

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

I've been doing that for the last couple decades. I still kind of hate it, but I've gotten used to it.

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Students upload what they have written themselves, complete with grammar and spelling mistakes, and then let AI write their other work like that. So I'm sorry. No proof anymore.

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The majority of then are autocorrect fucking up lately. It used to work nearly perfectly, then the ai bullshit stated and now it gets more words wing than right.

That paragraph includes several remaining genuine autocorrect "typos" and several I corrected to the right word. It's garbage.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I thought mistakes were considered symptoms (and therefore proof) of "AI slop".

[–] early_riser@lemmy.radio 1 points 1 month ago

No. In my experience AI is great at stringing words together. If you look at individual sentences, they'll sound perfectly reasonable, but the next sentence or paragraph won't quite line up with the ones around it.

The dreaded em dash is probably the stereotypical tell you're dealing with an AI. No keyboard I'm aware of has a way of inputting it natively, and most text entry forms on the web won't automatically parse a double hyphen (--) into one, which is frequently how word processors do it. Ironically I literally just found out by previewing this post that Lemmy's markdown parser does do exactly that. I think uses or is related to Pandoc, given the syntax for collapsed spoiler blocks is identical to Pandoc's div syntax.

Here's an example of a Reddit comment likely generated by an AI. Another tell is that it will hallucinate things that the OP never said. It talks about legal claims, for example, but the OP never mentions the language in question carrying legal weight.

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