Receiving an unexpectedly romantic text from your partner might seem like a sign that your relationship is better than ever.
But that may no longer be the case – thanks to the huge popularity of AI chatbots like ChatGPT.
On social media, dozens of hopeless romantics have confessed that they routinely use AI to text everyone from passing crushes to long–term partners.
One tech–savvy dater even claimed to have used AI to craft the perfect message to write in their boyfriend’s Valentine’s Day card.
Although AI–generated text can be extremely convincing, experts say there are a few simple ways to spot a message from ChatGPT.
According to writing expert Naomi Alderman, the key is to look at the way the words fit together, rather than what they are saying.
‘Words that ought to be working together are instead not even fighting each other – fighting is interesting – but coming apart in your hands like a cheaply–made toy,’ Ms Alderman explained in a blog post.
So, if your partner is suddenly telling you exactly what you want to hear, here are seven ways to tell if their texts are really coming straight from the heart.
Dozens of TikTok users have confessed that they use ChatGPT to write their text messages to romantic interests and long–term partners, with one saying they do it because they are ‘lazy’
1. Generic soft tone
According to Ms Alderman, one of AI’s most obvious giveaways is that the content is extremely generic.
ChatGPT and other chatbots are a type of AI called a Large Language Model, which creates sentences by predicting which word is the most likely to follow in the sequence.
Although this makes an extremely convincing simulation of intelligence, there isn’t any thinking going on behind the generated strings of words.
This means that AI–generated text often sounds generic or lacking in the personality that a human would be able to create.
Additionally, since AIs are typically designed to be helpful, they tend to produce language that is friendly and somewhat professional.
Ms Alderman says: ‘Even when you’ve asked them to be salty you still often get the feeling from the writing that they’re overperforming it.’
2. Is it word salad?
Some social media users joked that they accidentally left parts of the original ChatGPT message in their texts. However, not all signs of AI use will be quite this obvious
Since AI generates sentences word–by–word, they can often lack a sense of internal coherence.
Ms Alderman describes this as a feeling of ‘the longer you look at it the less it means’.
She calls this the ‘word salad feeling’ that you can sometimes get from reading AI generated content.
Your partners texts might sound like dramatic declarations of love or smooth, flirtatious lines but, when you look closer, they might not make any sense.
If words are combined strangely or in seemingly jumbled orders, that can be a good sign it’s not been written by a human.
3. Do the words go together?
Even if the words fit together properly, the words themselves might be incoherent when produced by a chatbot.
To explain this feeling, Ms Alderman references an episode of friends where Joey uses a thesaurus to rewrite the sentence ‘put it somewhere you’ll see it every day’.
However, the resulting sentence ‘keep it where your eyes land daily’ doesn’t quite convey the same meaning.
Texts written by AI may have a similar feeling of incoherence, like the words have been chosen at random.
Even though the meaning is technically the same, the tone of the word’s may not be quite right.
Ms Alderman says: ‘I can feel the gaps between the words opening up and the meaning falling between them.’
4. Would someone say it out loud?
If you’re not quite sure whether a text was really written by a human, a simple test is to ask whether they would say it out loud.
‘Try reading it out loud, or better try imagining just saying it off the cuff to another person,’ says Ms Alderman.
If it doesn’t feel like something your partner would naturally say to another person, then there’s a chance they didn’t really write it.
If you think a text could have been written by AI, try reading it aloud and thinking whether it sounds like something a human would ever say
Alternatively, you can even read the texts aloud yourself and see if they seem like a natural human sentence.
5. Does it have a point of view?
While you read the texts aloud, Ms Alderman also suggests that you pay attention for the sentences’ ‘point of view’.
Something that is written by a human will likely sound like its coming from a genuine human perspective, while AI generate text will lack that feeling
She says: ‘When you say the words out loud, you feel like you’re reading out at best some bit of committee–written bureaucracy.
‘There is an emotional sense of… no person is on the other end.’
An impersonal or distant tone can often be a product of some large language models, especially if this is how they have been programmed to behave.
6. Is the writing bad?
Although many people turn to ChatGPT to improve their writing, Ms Alderman points out that the results are often, quite simply, bad.
This doesn’t necessarily mean that it would be criticised in a creative writing class, but rather that it lacks that instinctive human touch.
This might be especially clear if your partner has suddenly starting producing love poetry.
While humans have a great instinctive feel for rhythm in writing, AI’s don’t yet have that same grasp of pacing.
So, while it could just mean your partner is a poor poet, a badly written verse could also be a sign of AI interference.
7. What do other AIs say?
If you think your partner is using an AI to text you, then the best person to ask might just be another AI.
If you’re curious, you can simply copy and paste the message into ChatGPT and ask, ‘Is this written by an LMM?’
If your partner has suddenly started sending romantic texts, if could mean that they’ve been asking ChatGPT for help. As social media users confess to turning to AI for texting help, here’s how you can spot whether something was written by AI
The AI can then analyse whether the text has the characteristic distribution of words and punctuation often used by large language models.
There are even specialised AI–checker programmes online which offer to scan text for the use of AI writing tools.
It is fairly easy for someone using an AI to ask for the text to be humanised or made harder to detect, but many people won’t bother with this extra step.
Ms Alderman says: ‘The magnificent thing about all writing technologies is that they can be used to analyse and address the problems that they create themselves.’
However, it is worth noting that these tools are not 100 per cent reliable and even top universities have struggled to find tools capable of spotting all cases of AI use.
HALF OF CURRENT JOBS WILL BE LOST TO AI WITHIN 15 YEARS
Kai-Fu Lee, the author of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, told Dailymail.com the world of employments was facing a crisis ‘akin to that faced by farmers during the industrial revolution.’
Half of current jobs will be taken over by AI within 15 years, one of China‘s leading AI experts has warned.
Kai-Fu Lee, the author of bestselling book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, told Dailymail.com the world of employments was facing a crisis ‘akin to that faced by farmers during the industrial revolution.’
‘People aren’t really fully aware of the effect AI will have on their jobs,’ he said.
Lee, who is a VC in China and once headed up Google in the region, has over 30 years of experience in AI.
He believes it is imperative to ‘warn people there is displacement coming, and to tell them how they can start retraining.’
Luckily, he said all is not lost for humanity.
‘AI is powerful and adaptable, but it can’t do everything that humans do.’
Lee believe AI cannot create, conceptualize, or do complex strategic planning, or undertake complex work that requires precise hand-eye coordination.
He also says it is poor at dealing with unknown and unstructured spaces.
Crucially, he says AI cannot interact with humans ‘exactly like humans’, with empathy, human-human connection, and compassion.
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