The false positive rate of AI detectors and its effect on freelance writers
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Re: The false positive rate of AI detectors and its effect on freelance writers
#2These AI detectors have all the validity of phrenology. You can enter some of your own writing (I did) to easily see for yourself. The text I entered had been online, and still is online, longer than AI writers have been around - but that doesn't seem to feed into their logic.
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#3Legal question: if a writer loses a job due to a false accusal of using AI, would they win a damages lawsuit against the AI detector service if they can prove that AI content detection is knowingly imprecise?
That's why those types of services (including OpenAI's initial AI detector) often have huge legal disclaimers saying not to take it as 100% accurate.
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#4Alternative reading: company determines that paid contractor is producing content that they can’t distinguish from a borderline free LLM, and decides to use it instead. Isn’t it likely that AI (not the detector) is the real threat to freelance writers’ livelihoods?
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#5Legal question: if a writer loses a job due to a false accusal of using AI, would they win a damages lawsuit against the AI detector service if they can prove that AI content detection is knowingly imprecise? That's why those types of services (including OpenAI's initial AI detector) often have huge legal disclaimers saying not to take it as 100% accurate.
Kinda like asking for the source code to the breathalyzer?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/08/im-not-drunk-off...
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#6If your work looks so much like generated content that it’s flagging detectors, then it’s also probably the work doomed to be replaced by generated content soon enough (if not already).
I don’t think current content generators will destroy many professions any time soon, but a lot of high-volume/low-value work is going to get consumed by them. This seems like an example of that work.
Hopefully, this guy didn’t expect to keep writing fluff into retirement and can find new footing with more sophisticated writing or pick up a new career with better opportunities.
Re: The false positive rate of AI detectors and its effect on freelance writers
#7Legal question: if a writer loses a job due to a false accusal of using AI, would they win a damages lawsuit against the AI detector service if they can prove that AI content detection is knowingly imprecise? That's why those types of services (including OpenAI's initial AI detector) often have huge legal disclaimers saying not to take it as 100% accurate.
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#8Daydream: The names of companies firing people on the basis of "AI detector" results are reported to the IRS...which then uses an "AI detector" to discover whether they've been cheating on their taxes.
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#9I want to see an "AI detector" that just marks everything as being not AI generated. Then, whenever someone is accused of using an AI by some nameless website, they can present their own website that shows they didn't use AI.
Professor: "The website said you used an AI." Student: "Well, here's a website claiming I didn't use an AI." Professor: "I don't know if I believe that website, let's look into the merits of how it works." Student: "Yes, let's do that." Professor: ...
Re: The false positive rate of AI detectors and its effect on freelance writers
#10Surely this is defamation? If I write a program to defame someone, is that still defamation?