“I don’t want my writing to sound like ChatGPT”

隨着越來越多學生偷懶，做功課時偷偷用AI，也有越來越多老師用AI detectors去判斷學生的文章是否用AI寫的。但Stanford大學學者調研後發現, AI detectors 經常把英語非第一語言的學生的文章，誤斷為 AI 寫的。我個人認為這可能是因這類學生，接受的英文教育大都只聚焦在 Grammar是否正確，和學生寫作時是否緊跟老師所教的框架，而這種教學方式培養出來的死板寫作風格，正是AI最容易掌握的。

那移民到外國的香港學生，如何避免被冤枉用了AI？學生可以多用想像力，多用恰當的比喻去把敘述的事寫得更生動。另外，把句子寫成長短不一，帶有節奏，也能避免sound like ChatGPT.

下面學生寫的段落，ZeroGPT(常用的AI detector之一 ) 說是100% AI寫的，至於我的rewrite， 用了上述技巧，ZeroGPT說是100% human written.

Student

The government started building the Thames Tideway Tunnel in 2016. It is finally going to be fully open in 2025. Its function is to improve water quality of the Thames by reducing the amount of untreated sewage flowing into the river. The tunnel is 25 km long and cost 5 billion pounds to build.

My rewrite

If you peer into an opening of the Thames Tideway Tunnel, you may mistaken it as the entrance to tube slide at a water park. Both are perfectly cylindrical; both seem so deep that once you dive into them, you could count to 10 and still not come out on the other side. But here the similarities stop. The Thames Tideway Tunnel, a super sewer built to ease the longstanding problem of sewage overflow in River Thames, took 10 years to complete, spans 25 km in length, and cost the British taxpayers 5 billion pounds, enough money to build The Shard three times over.