People are using ChatGPT to write their text messages - here's how you can tell

• People are using AI to write sensitive messages to loved ones.
• Detecting AI-generated text is becoming more difficult as chatbots evolve.
• Some tech leaders have promoted this use of AI in their marketing strategies.

Everyone loves receiving a handwritten letter, but those take time, patience, effort, and sometimes multiple drafts to compose. Most of us at one time or another have given a Hallmark card to a loved one or friend. Not because we don't care; more often than not, because it's convenient -- or maybe we just don't know what to say.

These days, some people are turning to AI chatbots like ChatGPT to express their congratulations, condolences, and other sentiments, or just to make idle chitchat. 

AI-generated messages

One Reddit user in the r/ChatGPT subreddit this past weekend, for example, posted a screenshot of a text he'd received from her ...