It used to be that if I saw a typo or grammatical error in someone's writing, I'd switch off, thinking the author really didn't care that much about the text they're writing to proofread it. Now, the complete opposite. Leaving in typos and such shows a clear signal that the author cared enough about what they're writing not to out source to AI.
Related to that, I saw a local band posting marketing material online, that was this kind of amateurish typography with a collage of photos decorated with coloured markers. 2 years ago I'd be laughing at what a terrible job it was, today, it's a breath of fresh human air from all the slop we're subjected to all over the internet. It caught my attention, so much that I'm going to see the band this weekend.
"It used to be that if I saw a typo or grammatical error in someone's writing,"
It's not quite that simple. Many moons ago I taught RSA IT skills levels 2 and three. Hmmm I used a plural for levels and a literal 2 and spelt out three.
You are probably not 50+ years old and have not had to run anti spam email systems for several decades! When you are deciding whether something is created by something other than is claimed, you need way more "rules" than typos and that.
Look at the language in use: A fair sign of AI is banality, verbosity and obsequiousness.
Please don't look upon lazy spelling and grammar as a sign of authenticity: "Its how real people work" - it isn't. That will be mercilessly abused by the baddies. Unfortunately we will all have to raise our game and be proactive in spotting baddies.
Also, please don't become too worried about all this stuff. The bubble will eventually burst.
Zig when others zag. This too shall pass, and will be forgotten.
Flash websites no one watched. Carousels. Consultants saying "we need a viral". Every product needed a MySpace page, to be prefixed with an "i", or to have most vowels removed. Blue-and-orange film posters.
All those trends will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Any spelling or grammar mistake is enough for me to re-publish one of my e-books (which usually takes about 20 minutes). The reason is that even a simple error may be enough to pull your reader out of their fantasy space and back into the real world, and as an avid reader myself I would prefer that did not happen.
Same, ever since AI got big I've started to see typos and signs of amateurism in a positive light. I wonder how long it will be before people start generating slop with typos on purpose so that we think a human wrote it. Maybe we're already there.
Related to that, I saw a local band posting marketing material online, that was this kind of amateurish typography with a collage of photos decorated with coloured markers. 2 years ago I'd be laughing at what a terrible job it was, today, it's a breath of fresh human air from all the slop we're subjected to all over the internet. It caught my attention, so much that I'm going to see the band this weekend.