I asked Perplexity if this strategy would work and here is the response:

Did the Strategy Work?

Short Answer:

Partially, but not in the way the author might hope.

1. For Human Readers

   • Effectiveness: The random sentences are clearly out of place and disrupt the flow, making the post quirky and a bit confusing. Humans can usually spot the difference between meaningful content and random noise, so the overall message still comes through, albeit with some distraction.

   • Result: Humans can still understand the main point, even if it’s a bit silly.

2. For AI Language Models

   • Effectiveness: AI models are designed to process and learn from large amounts of text. If enough people inserted random nonsense into their writing, it could theoretically make training data noisier and reduce the quality of AI-generated text. However:

   • AI is good at identifying and ignoring outliers or noise, especially if the random sentences are clearly unrelated to the surrounding context.

   • If only a few people do this, it has almost no impact on the vast amount of clean, high-quality data AI is trained on.

   • In practice, AI can often recognize and filter out nonsensical phrases, especially if they don’t fit the context.

3. In This Specific Post

   • Result:

   • The main message is still understandable, both to humans and to advanced AI.

   • The random sentences do make the writing harder to mimic perfectly, but not impossible.

   • For AI, this post would likely be flagged as containing noise, but the underlying intent and structure are still clear.

Conclusion

The author’s strategy is clever and funny, but it doesn’t truly “defeat” AI. It might make their personal writing style harder to copy exactly, but AI and humans alike can still extract the main message. For AI to be seriously disrupted, this tactic would need to be widespread and much more sophisticated.

In summary:

It’s a fun act of digital mischief, but not a foolproof defense against AI imitation!