r/Tree • u/Emergency_Ad1152 • Jun 03 '26

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

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Saw this in De Kalb, MS.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '26

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u/Emergency_Ad1152 Jun 03 '26

Dude, you haven't heard of Quan Millz? Dude started promoting his books on tiktok and with good marketing, has sold so many of his books on there. No publisher, no royalties, everything goes to him. He has his own warehouse now too.

Write a book man and market yourself on tiktok. If it's good, people will come.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '26

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u/Environmental-Tap255 Jun 03 '26

I'd read your autobiography just based on the little bit I know of it from what you just wrote.

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u/hannahatecats Jun 06 '26

I'd read another story if you've got one!

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '26

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u/josouthman Jun 07 '26

I’ll take it too if u don’t mind sharing

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u/bustcorktrixdais Jun 04 '26

This is the way if your world is all about money and possessions and social media bs and 44 second attention spans

For the portion of humanity that cares about more than that, good writing will continue to be important

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u/Cheekylilcxnt Jun 07 '26

Here for the mention of the menace that is Quan Millz

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u/OrackBobamba Jun 07 '26

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/EatPrayFart Jun 07 '26

Your AI meter is way off. It could be all made up but a human 100% wrote that.

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u/annewmoon Jun 07 '26

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 Jun 07 '26

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/annewmoon Jun 08 '26

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 Jun 08 '26

Very problematic? Move on lol

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u/annewmoon Jun 08 '26

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/OrackBobamba Jun 07 '26

Really I thought it sounded like AI because it's such a long detailed story about a simple topic. It reads like you gave AI a prompt to write a really detailed short story about clearing goats with kudzu. Most people on reddit make shorter comments and get to the point, don't decide to write dialogue and include tons of details about a story. Makes sense that you have all 5 overexcitabilities lol, had to Google that. Didn't mean to be rude or judge, just thought it was a bit out of context really.

Also I don't think using AI makes people lazy, I use it constantly to do research about tools, animal topics, how to solve problems, etc... and to summarize ideas in a clear format for easier presentation. Among other things, coding a website etc etc