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Anybody else grin or smirk at the writers' tongue-in-cheek touch of having Jamie Fraser save the cat (kitten) after murdering Lieutenent Knox in S5 E5 of Outlander?

If it published such a thing, it would not credit you. In fact, there's a good story idea: it publishes not the literal correspondence between you but a fiction obviously based on your relationship with it (or a human-to-human relationship you disclosed to it) and that fiction causes you...

Hmmm, Gemini AI told me just now that Google still harvests Gmail content for training of AI.

No, I think I took it the way you meant it, and I just saw an opportunity to poke fun at myself. But the fact you even thought of the dog suggests it's at least a trope. Still, I don't actually mean I would cut it for that.

If it ain't Mother Bear's*, it ain't bearly pizza. * pizza maker laureate, most often lauded #1 in national pizza surveys. 1428 E 3rd St, Bloomington, IN. Worth the side trip. Now, as for AI assistance, I don't use it — for the same reason I stopped using Gmail, even after they said they...

Mind if I borrow that for a moment of post-defloration reflection? (Probably substitute "she" for "he.") But seriously, now I'm wondering if I have to remove the dog barking in a neighbor's yard from a nocturnal summer post-sex-with-windows-open scene. Is the barking dog actually a cliché nowadays?

Proud owner of a Mighty Wurlitzer, was he? Then there are heads of state (at least one) who repeatedly speak with unabashed Freudian envy of the likes of Arnold Palmer and Milton Berle.

"Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!" "Boone, I anticipate a deeply religious experience." Animal House, 1978 This most influential movie line after, "I coulda been a contender!" and "...make him an offer he can't refuse. "

I'm not a big preacher of SDT, but this descriptive phrase is completely generic and bland. Demonstrate her interest and have your character muse on why it appears genuine.

Cuban salsa (music) is said to be the same, with highly stylized and abbreviationful musical "shorthand."

I DM'ed you a link to a few of my performance-heavy chapters.

But is it ironic or is it inevitable — that text used, or of the quality used, to train AI would then get flagged as sounding like AI?

They'd have to be sitting pretty close together

Betrayal is a brilliant example of this as well.

Call me a schlemiel.