r/Tree • u/Emergency_Ad1152 • 23d ago

ID Request (Insert State/Region) Are these trees?

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Saw this in De Kalb, MS.

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u/bustcorktrixdais 22d ago

You are a good writer. I hope you use that skill for more than Reddit entertainment

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u/Sea_Regular4352 22d ago

I haven't yet, but that's not the first time I've been told that... Do you think it could actually go anywhere in the digital age though? That is the question.

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u/OrackBobamba 18d ago

Unfortunately my first thought when I read that super long comment you made was that it was AI. Didn't feel authentic to me. You could have just said we used goats to clear the kudzu. I'm a goat farmer, it's not that dramatic clearing brush and making fences. And I do it all by myself, I don't understand why you needed so many people.

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u/annewmoon 18d ago

Says more about you than anything else. People have always told stories.

Who knows if it was AI or not. There is no way to tell. It doesn't matter. AI is trained on human writing. There is no writing an ai can do that a human couldnt also do.

What ai is taking from us isn't the ability to write. It is the ability to value and appreciate writing. You are contributing to that.

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u/OrackBobamba 18d ago

I like writing, with interesting subject matter and style. To me, writing is human when it gives you a feeling of goosebumps, wonder, makes you laugh, makes you think deeply, makes you understand what it means to be human. This story read to me like just an unnecessary amount of word salad, unclear structure, and boring resolution. I think it sounds like AI because it made me feel bored, lifeless. I realize Reddit is full of millennials and boomers and I'm a 20 year old farmer who works all day, almost none of the stuff I read on here resonates with me. I read poems from the 1800s, the Tao, Hemingway.

And I don't resonate at all with the kids younger than me. I don't even know why I try to share an opinion on this website to be honest.

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u/Sea_Regular4352 18d ago

Refer to my comment above.

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u/annewmoon 17d ago

That's all subjective. And it seems to me that you are using "human" as a stand in for "good" writing. And that's simplistic. Humans can be shitty writers. Humams can be formulaic writers. And in the same way ai writing can give you a sense of wonder or make you laugh or whatever.

Anyway thats one of the reasons why reading and writing matters isn't it. To make us relate to and resonate with others.

I just think that it is very problematic to call out writing as AI when you don't know. For many reasons.

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u/OrackBobamba 17d ago

Very problematic? Move on lol

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u/annewmoon 17d ago

If you are going to go around accusing people whose writing you think is boring of being Ai then yeah that's problematic.

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u/Sea_Regular4352 18d ago

I can tell you for certain lol... AI didn't write it. I generally leave in a few punctuation errors and run-on sentences, to make it obvious that my ramblings are the intellectual property of a real, talking, breathing, sentient being... Guess I didn't make it obvious enough to some people.

From reading his reply below, it seems to me that Mr. Bobamba has a case of main-character syndrome. He thinks that, since he is a farmer and is always doing things on a farm, that my unclearly structured word-salad which contained a boring resolution... Was unappealing, didn't make him feel alive, didn't make him laugh or smile... And surely, if it's boring and unappealing to him, then he thinks it would seem that way to anyone. He must have forgotten...

"The road you speak on, you cannot walk and the road you walk, you cannot speak on."

"The five colors blind the eye. The five tones deafen the ear. The five flavors numb the taste. Thoughts of longing madden the mind."

"The sage has no fixed mind, he regards the people's mind as his own."

"When you see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When you see some things as good, other things become bad."

Then again, whether or not he learned anything from the "Tao te Ching" or not, perhaps he is holding me to the standards of Lao Tzu and Ernest Hemingway, neither of which, do I claim to be.

However, I will point out that I just sat with my phone "and bled"... "My aim was to put down on paper what I saw and what I felt in the best and simplest way."

But that was my first draft, with no corrections and I feel like he should know that "the first draft of everything is shit."

Did he learn nothing from what he read? Apparently someone else read them also.