Why even care? If the article is well written and well researched and it's seemingly impossible for readers to tell the difference, what's the problem with using AI to improve it? Did people care when computers were used instead of typewriters? When spell checkers became popular?
Mission Accomplished? https://xkcd.com/810/
The false positive rate of AI detectors and its effect on freelance writers
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#32These 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.
I tried it with my blog, and it was correctly identified by Copy Leaks as written by a human. I don't know how representative https://copyleaks.com/blog/ai-detector-continues-top-accurac... is, but certainly all of them are getting above phrenology detection rates.
Even with this guy, the problem wasn't that it misidentified him as AI. It was that "we can't tell" got turned into, "we can't risk Google thinking he might be AI".
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#33Like what other defense is there? "No I didn't" prove it "I can't"
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you want is a sort of AI Witches' Scales? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oudewater#Buildings
Not quite. Oudewater offered fair scales. What this guy's talking about are still rigged scales, just oppositely rigged scales. The only reason nobody was ever found a witch there was because the underlying concepts were BS.
I'm trying to think if you can indeed do something with a fair test.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you want is a sort of AI Witches' Scales? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oudewater#Buildings
From the linked article: " After the weighing, they received an official certificate proclaiming them not a witch... Certificates would state that 'the body weight is in proportion to its build'. The reasoning behind this is the old belief that a witch has no soul and therefore weighs significantly less than an ordinary person". I love this piece of history so much, thank you for sharing it! Adding this one to my boo…
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#36Are his articles included in a training set? Are they actually good content or should he try harder to behave like a human? This sounds like a defamation lawsuit. This seems like an issue NFTs could take some pressure of off.
A new game: Sarcasm or Crypto Poe's law?
I legitimately don't know if I'm laughing with or at the above poster - all I know is I'm laughing.
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#39Daydream: 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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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you want is a sort of AI Witches' Scales? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oudewater#Buildings
Not quite. Oudewater offered fair scales. What this guy's talking about are still rigged scales, just oppositely rigged scales. The only reason nobody was ever found a witch there was because the underlying concepts were BS.