A Kenyan author on the supposed markers of AI-generated text: “The very things you identify as the fingerprints of the machine are, in fact, the fossil records of our education.” (Marcus Olang’, This Man’s Mind)
Summary
- I don't write like ChatGPT. ChatGPT writes like me, a product of a specific educational and societal pipeline.
- The things that 'AI detectors' flag as robotic are actually the result of my rigorous training in formal, structured writing.
- My writing style reflects a colonial legacy, not an algorithm's output. I've been doing it this way for a very long time.
