AI-generated writing IC
"On these neon streets in this dog-eat-dog city..."

Agreed that I didn't come here to write with robots, but how can you tell something is AI? I don't use it, so I'm not familiar. Is it just word salad?

Couldn't that just be style someone was trying to emulate? I dunno. Just worry about discouraging someone who actually worked hard on something. I use all those things myself sometimes in writing. The dashes allll the time - too much. ;)
I know not everyone is a fan of what I write either but being accused of being so bad I was using AI would be a super bummer.
But! I admit I'm not experienced with how ai works and it freaks me right the heck out. I will echo the sentiment that I want to write with people and if you don't want to write, please farm it out to someone else.

(Now Im going to go have a whole ass existential crisis.)

I let ChatGPT respond to your post:

"I wouldn’t spiral over it.

A lot of the things people point to as “AI tells” are just common writing habits. Dashes, ellipses, layered description, certain rhythms of phrasing — those have all existed long before text generators. Style overlap doesn’t equal automation. It just means language has patterns, and people sometimes share them.

It’s also worth remembering that most experienced readers can usually tell the difference between someone engaged in a scene and something mechanically produced. AI writing tends to be oddly generic when you sit with it for a bit. It struggles with sustained voice, with continuity of emotion, with the small, messy human inconsistencies that make collaborative writing feel alive. If you’re actually present in the exchange — reacting, adapting, taking risks — that shows.

At the same time, it’s reasonable for communities to say they want human collaboration. That doesn’t have to be read as an accusation. It’s more about preserving the spirit of shared creativity than policing punctuation habits.

If you worked hard on something, that effort matters. Someone else’s anxiety about technology doesn’t invalidate that. And if anyone ever did question you, a calm, straightforward response is usually enough. People who are writing in good faith tend to recognize it in others.

No existential crisis required."

I think I would caution people to assume that certain writing styles must be AI. It is trained on how real people write (although, yes, it is a highly-refined/averaged version of that). More importantly though, a lot of people spend a lot of time talking to AI and that is increasing all the time. The way that LLMs speak is going to feed back into us and kind of train us to talk similarly over time. Especially younger people I imagine will speak more like LLMs over time.

I do agree that we shouldn't be using them for RP and important IC content, but assuming that something is AI just because of writing style just doesn't sit well with me. Especially since topside players might actually be trying to write things that sound hyper-corporate which might come across similarly.

What's the recourse if we suspect that LLMs have been used for paid IC services? Like tailoring, or articles. I can't think of a single way to bring this up that doesn't foul the waters.

And if the tailor superkills me because I ICly shorted them on a job…?

I think we can all agree that asking the admin to police this is not going to work, because we have other stuff to do, and it's a very subjective thing anyway. If you want to give us a heads up, that's fine, but I don't want to hear complaints that we aren't doing enough to police it, or that it's 'obivous but the admin just let it happen'. Running the game is super time consuming already without adding more things to our plate.

That being said, you can simply not buy things from people you suspect are using AI to generate their clothing or whatever. That's completely fine. It applies social and economic pressure that can delete the core benefit of using AI for writing in a job scenario (quick money).

If you want some perspective on AI writing style, this is actually a really good read. It came across my Hacker News feed a month or two ago: I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT. ChatGPT writes like me.