New status signal: making ugly office docs to prove they weren't AI-made
rickasaurus · x · 2026-10-01
A netizen shares his new habit: these days he takes "sick pleasure" in making very ugly office documents, "it very clearly shows I didn't put it through any AI" — a telling sign that in the flood of AI-generated content, human roughness has become a scarce authenticity signal.
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