I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words
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Re: I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words
#2Please forgive me. I am NOT asserting anything, but I read this (your website), and had it not contained express claims of not being AI, I would have bet a substantial stake that it was AI. Perhaps because AI imitates good writing styles, I am not sure, but it matches many of the signals that for me, indicate AI
Edit: The above said, I am seeing in my own writing, artifacts from my interactions with AI. I am proof that, in some cases, AI can be contagious.
Re: I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words
#3> That map makes it stupidly easy to tell a human from a machine. Someone who commits 50,000 lines in an afternoon did not type those by hand. Someone doing a couple hundred? Probably real. Simple.
Uh, this isn't true, though? I squash commits all the time locally before I publish them. There can be many reasons for that, but at the end of the day, I'm not obligated to share my messy revision history with the world. In the most extreme case, the first commit on one of my projects spans multiple years of development because it was forked from another project that's now pretty irrelevant to it. On the other hand, I've received pull requests that were a couple dozen lines and were definitely LLM-authored.
As sort of a counterpoint to the author's goals, IMO the community should extend the benefit of the doubt to writers and artists who explicitly say they don't use AI, because it's just really hard to prove that you're not using AI. Trying to force any kind of system will inevitably affect the quality of what you make, and the art community should not want that.
Re: I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words
#4Please forgive me. I am NOT asserting anything, but I read this (your website), and had it not contained express claims of not being AI, I would have bet a substantial stake that it was AI. Perhaps because AI imitates good writing styles, I am not sure, but it matches many of the signals that for me, indicate AI Edit: The above said, I am seeing in my own writing, artifacts from my interactions with AI. I am proof th…
I agree.
My guess is the author either
1. Deliberately used LLM tics in their prose, for artistic and provocative reasons, or 2. Used AI
It's quite interesting to reflect on.
Re: I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words
#5Entrepreneurs of hacker news: Media companies are experimenting with tools that try to detect if a work contains AI. I don't have the domain knowledge to know if that will work, but it seems like the alternative is to have a system to track the provenance of a piece of art or a written work. If you could say that every change was done by party/ person xy then a company buying or licensing it could comfortably depend xy's assurance that it was original work.
Re: I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words
#6> That map makes it stupidly easy to tell a human from a machine. Someone who commits 50,000 lines in an afternoon did not type those by hand. Someone doing a couple hundred? Probably real. Simple. Uh, this isn't true, though? I squash commits all the time locally before I publish them. There can be many reasons for that, but at the end of the day, I'm not obligated to share my messy revision history with the world.…
It's also possible to break the 50,000 lines up into multiple commits and fake the commit dates, so this does nothing to prove a human wrote them.
Re: I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words
#7anti-ai people harass each other, and gain nothing because their world model is bad.
Re: I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words
#8Entrepreneurs of hacker news: Media companies are experimenting with tools that try to detect if a work contains AI. I don't have the domain knowledge to know if that will work, but it seems like the alternative is to have a system to track the provenance of a piece of art or a written work. If you could say that every change was done by party/ person xy then a company buying or licensing it could comfortably depend…
Constructing validation claims for useless properties, doesn't render the object with the property valuable?
Re: I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words
#9Unfortunately, people will truly try to fake the "paper trail". People posted sped up video of them creating art as proof they made it, so people also used AI to try to generate that.
Re: I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words
#10> As I’ve mentioned before, we now live in a world where creative people have to prove they created the thing they created.
Do you? Just stop caring. I don't think it makes sense to keep asserting that you're an AI vegan in order to please randos. You'll always get hate creating/building anything online. The people that enjoy your work won't care if it's AI or not or they'll believe you.