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Re: Ask HN: How will Google differentiate between content written by AI and human?

#11

I wrote a userscript (with help from ChatGPT) that identifies if comments on HN are written by AI or a human. I based it on https://huggingface.co/openai-detector . Its still a little shabby and only works on HN, but I imagine this is going to be required for general non-specific Internet browsing going forward. Looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/BTt1DTh.png

Very interesting! How does it work?

Re: Ask HN: How will Google differentiate between content written by AI and human?

#12

There isn't a hard boundary between "content written by an AI" and "content written by a human". I can say to ChatGPT: "Here are my ideas in point form, write them out as full paragraphs: ..." And ChatGPT will do that for me. So, is that content written by an AI, or content written by a human?

I'm talking more about the snowball effect that this kind of practice would have in the long run. Training models working on contents that have been generated in the past by AIs, again injected as a source for a new AI. Are we heading towards an impoverishment of information? Maybe not if we include trusted third parties in the data source. The question of the source of training data will be important to monitor.

Re: Ask HN: How will Google differentiate between content written by AI and human?

#13

I wrote a userscript (with help from ChatGPT) that identifies if comments on HN are written by AI or a human. I based it on https://huggingface.co/openai-detector . Its still a little shabby and only works on HN, but I imagine this is going to be required for general non-specific Internet browsing going forward. Looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/BTt1DTh.png

+1 star for this repo btw

Re: Ask HN: How will Google differentiate between content written by AI and human?

#14

I wrote a userscript (with help from ChatGPT) that identifies if comments on HN are written by AI or a human. I based it on https://huggingface.co/openai-detector . Its still a little shabby and only works on HN, but I imagine this is going to be required for general non-specific Internet browsing going forward. Looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/BTt1DTh.png

Very interesting! How does it work?

It puts every comment into that GPT output detector and colors and writes a short comment on the HN comment, like you see in the screenshot based on a threshold. >0.7 is probably AI, >0.9 is definitely AI. Lower than that is most likely human. Most comments still appear to be human.

It only becomes reliable after about 50 tokens (one token is around 4 characters) so I mark the comments that are too short with gray and make no assessment on those.

I've put it on https://github.com/chryzsh/GPTCommentDetector

Re: Ask HN: How will Google differentiate between content written by AI and human?

#15

I wrote a userscript (with help from ChatGPT) that identifies if comments on HN are written by AI or a human. I based it on https://huggingface.co/openai-detector . Its still a little shabby and only works on HN, but I imagine this is going to be required for general non-specific Internet browsing going forward. Looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/BTt1DTh.png

+1 star for this repo btw

Thank you https://github.com/chryzsh/GPTCommentDetector

Re: Ask HN: How will Google differentiate between content written by AI and human?

#16

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Very interesting! How does it work?

It puts every comment into that GPT output detector and colors and writes a short comment on the HN comment, like you see in the screenshot based on a threshold. >0.7 is probably AI, >0.9 is definitely AI. Lower than that is most likely human. Most comments still appear to be human. It only becomes reliable after about 50 tokens (one token is around 4 characters) so I mark the comments that are too short with gray an…

I see. My question of how it works was more about the method you were using to identify content as something written by an AI, but from what I saw on your repo, you rely on a set of GPT-specific configurations that identify a percentage of similarity to the content being analyzed?

Re: Ask HN: How will Google differentiate between content written by AI and human?

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+1 star for this repo btw

Thank you https://github.com/chryzsh/GPTCommentDetector

With pleasure, we are also working on an open-source project (called Luos engine). Receiving support just by clicking on a star is a quick click for a big effect.

Re: Ask HN: How will Google differentiate between content written by AI and human?

#18

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It puts every comment into that GPT output detector and colors and writes a short comment on the HN comment, like you see in the screenshot based on a threshold. >0.7 is probably AI, >0.9 is definitely AI. Lower than that is most likely human. Most comments still appear to be human. It only becomes reliable after about 50 tokens (one token is around 4 characters) so I mark the comments that are too short with gray an…

I see. My question of how it works was more about the method you were using to identify content as something written by an AI, but from what I saw on your repo, you rely on a set of GPT-specific configurations that identify a percentage of similarity to the content being analyzed?

Like desrcibed in the repo, I just feed it to the GPT output detector. I didn't write that tool, but from my understanding they trained a GPT model to recognize itself.

Re: Ask HN: How will Google differentiate between content written by AI and human?

#19

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I see. My question of how it works was more about the method you were using to identify content as something written by an AI, but from what I saw on your repo, you rely on a set of GPT-specific configurations that identify a percentage of similarity to the content being analyzed?

Like desrcibed in the repo, I just feed it to the GPT output detector. I didn't write that tool, but from my understanding they trained a GPT model to recognize itself.

Okay cool, I had heard the same kind of AI training during the release of DALL.E 2 where one of the AI was dedicated to the generation of the image and another AI which checked if the generated image corresponded to an AI or not.
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