# AI mega thread **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [October 7, 2026, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.cpcwiki.eu/t/ai-mega-thread/743 "2026-10-07T23:48:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![cpcitor](https://forum.cpcwiki.eu/user_avatar/forum.cpcwiki.eu/cpcitor/32/321_2.png) [@cpcitor](https://forum.cpcwiki.eu/u/cpcitor)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.cpcwiki.eu/t/ai-mega-thread/743/5 "2026-10-04T18:00:17Z")
> [@BSC](#): > > How much of your response @cpcitor was made by an AI, then? Only the list at the end, and I said so when I introduced it: Claude did the web search, I selected and edited the items and checked every link before posting. I strive to write good prods and good prose. I hope careful writing does not become a sign of AI. 🙂 > **Long answer for those who wants details** > > Here’s how I introduced it: > > > [@GALAGA CPC IA de REVIVE8BIT](https://forum.cpcwiki.eu/t/galaga-cpc-ia-de-revive8bit/588/74): > > > > I asked Claude to to a deep web search and selected these from a longer list, I already knew some of them and post below a few links I personnally selected after opening them and at least skimming through the content > > Just noticed the typos “to to” instead of “to do” an “personnally” instead of “personally”. AIs typically don’t do that. 🙂 > > > [@BSC](#): > > > > Almost all of your post reeks like it. > > Why do you feel that? > > I write my posts myself. I benefit from the forum, I try to share something thoughtful back… which easily becomes too long, so I cut it with Markdown sections and a TL;DR as a courtesy to readers. It is different from most people style but it’s my style, not any AI style. > > I also have a discipline, before posting, of reading what I wrote “in the shoes of a reader passing by” and checking if it’s clear. Traditionally I would check for better words with a dictionary or sometimes Google translate one or two sentences. Nowadays when I think it’s not good enough I sometimes ask Claude to re-read, criticize and rewrite parts (which I did for example in my other post about “any-setup keys”). > [@BSC](#): > > The emdash being the most obvious trace. Oh, plot twist ahead. 🙂 I just discovered that the dashes in that list (they mark date ranges) are not em dashes but en dashes, and according to [En (typography) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_(typography)) that is the proper mark for a range. So it is correct typography. (Edit: but you were right on the main point: those dashes are in the part Claude produced.) In the past I sometimes used `--` (double-hyphen) when writing Markdown (here’s the result: – , also triple-hyphen yields: — ), IIRC because I read once on a typography geek site that those were more proper than the ASCII hyphen/minus sign in non-mathematical context. Now I don’t even consider it because it makes people believe an AI wrote the text. * * * As an exercise I asked Claude to rewrite the whole answer above. See its version below. That version is shorter. Mine has typos. 😁 Genuine question: would anyone prefer that I post Claude’s version next time? > **What Claude suggests** > > Only the list at the end, and I said so when I introduced it: Claude did the web search, I selected and edited the items and checked every link I posted. > > The rest is my own writing. My posts tend to be long, so I add section titles and a TL;DR as a courtesy to readers. That is my habit, not an AI’s. > > Before posting, I re-read my text as a reader passing by would. I used to check words with a dictionary, or Google Translate for a sentence or two. Now, when a text is long and unclear, I sometimes ask Claude to re-read, criticize and rewrite parts. I did that in my other post about “any-setup keys”. > > The dashes you spotted are in that list. They are en dashes in date ranges, which is standard typography. I used to type `--` myself, because a typography site said it was more proper than a plain hyphen. I stopped, because now it makes people believe an AI wrote the text. > > I strive to write good prods and good prose. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.cpcwiki.eu/t/ai-mega-thread/743)._