{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Art of the Zag","title":"How to Sound Nothing Like AI, According to the World's Top Internet Linguist","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/3fa78d8b\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3529,"description":"Deleting your em dashes isn't enough. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch on the hidden force driving the anti-AI writing revolution, and what it actually takes to sound nothing like a machine.\nAbout Gretchen McCulloch:\nGretchen McCulloch is an internet linguist and the author of the New York Times bestseller Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language. She is the Resident Linguist at WIRED and co-hosts the linguistics podcast Lingthusiasm.\nChapters:\n(00:00) Becoming an internet linguist \n(07:24) When you got online matters most \n(14:41) Is there an anti-AI writing movement? \n(19:19) How the boomer voice got invented \n(28:41) Why we need to sound less like each other \n(38:22) What machine translation teaches us about AI writing \n(46:04) Why the em dash became the villain\n(57:25) Gretchen's counterintuitive idea","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/DxU1zuf3cf1bHz7e18y3PLfFOXz1V6Waeu5mNTk6NmY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82NWRk/MjBhOTQ0NGEyZGI0/NDk2NmM0MGUwYjcw/NjVhNS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}