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Bruh. Let me summon @Throwaway05 :
Do you think it's possible to make recommendations or suggestions about antidepressant usage without heavily stressing the importance of a full physical to rule out medical causes for low mood?
Do you think the information given by OP was sufficient to make a clinical recommendation beyond the most universally applicable points?
I strongly suspect he's going to back me up there. Since the facts aren't really in dispute, all that's left is finding a certain string of letters to convey the message. I see nothing "AI" about my choice of phrasing, that's just... normal writing. It's oodles less formal than what I might for in an actual effortpost, because it was smashed out in 5 minutes in the middle of a study session.
To the extent that the 'best' "AI detectors" don't think it's AI at all, I'm very curious to know what stylistic tells you imagine you see, and then an effort to compare it with my earliest writing. I'm not going to bother, I've already put in more than sufficient effort, and I am generally honest about using LLMs. If and when I do use them.
I imagine the issue is that we (physicians) have a tendency to write with certain tics, these not seeming like normal writing to most people.
Since you've AI'ed a bunch already I imagine others are going to see that and make assumptions?
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