Original Notion chat
ChatGPT
You asked for an AI-like human passage to replace the Olympics passage.
The chat compared several candidates:
Smithsonian, "The 20 Best Small Towns in America of 2012" - Key West.
The Man Who Would Be King screenplay opening.
The Olympics paragraph itself.
Pre-ChatGPT examples that sound AI-ish.
Travel and culture writing from Smithsonian, Condé Nast Traveler, National Geographic, and Atlas Obscura.
ChatGPT said the Olympics passage did not strongly sound AI-generated:
It is unusually specific: a single marimba, Yang Tae-Hwan, glowing suits, geomungos, and a prayer pagoda. The phrase "the meeting of old and new" sounds generic, but one phrase is not enough.
The chat then found examples such as:
Smithsonian, 2012, Key West:
"Hippies, artists, writers and chefs have sustained a vibrant, kitschy art scene for decades. Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams both called Key West home at some point, and they left a lasting mark on the town."
National Geographic / travel writing examples using phrases like "timely tales of timeless places" and "resilient communities, innovative conservation efforts, and thrilling opportunities for future explorations."
The chat also examined a Professor Layton transcript site and concluded that the journal summaries, especially "Unwound Future-Journal," sounded more AI-like than the dialogue transcripts because they had polished explanatory compression and phrases like "Not only..." and "piqued my curiosity."
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