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People who love the style in which AI writes-still overwhelmingly in English, since Hindi, Marathi, Bengali...walas are busy gawking at the tech-are usually unaware of the concept of 'style'. You write (in AI-speak 'you pen') a scathing, bullet-pointed, too-many-adjectived wooden op-ed, and even with the help of only cutting-edge Spellcheck Holmes and no ChatGPT, others will hiss, 'Oh my, it smells like AI.' At this rate, even writing 'Happy Birthday!' with proper punctuation is grounds for running a Turing Test. So, beware. If you show signs of intelligence-especially one that's suspiciously artificial-stop writing. The other option is that you get a smart person to ghostwrite for you. Because writing yourself without using a chatbot might expose your incompetence further.
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