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Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)

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Re: Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)

#11

Has any research been done to try and determine the percentage of the population that are able to detect obvious LLM-generated text?

majority of population dont read anything at all. Most they a read is perhaps labels and signs at a supermarket.

Re: Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)

#14
I'm a bit skeptical of arguments of the form, "You should not use LLMs without disclosure because LLMs at bad at writing."

My reasoning is: If LLMs get better at writing—which I think is extremely likely—will you switch positions and say that now using LLMs without disclosure is A-OK?

Surely some people are willing to bite that bullet and say yes. But for most people, my guess is that the answer will remain no. Thus, I tend to think that the "real" reason most of us don't like it when people use LLMs to write without disclosure is that it's misleading: It's a sort of a claim that certain thoughts can be attributed to a human being when in fact they can't.

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Re: Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)

#15

You are right in every sense, but it seems you used llm to write this post, lol!

What makes you say that? It reads naturally to me and Pangram flags it as 100% human. I've never heard an AI use the "fly is open" analogy.

Re: Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)

#16

Has any research been done to try and determine the percentage of the population that are able to detect obvious LLM-generated text?

majority of population dont read anything at all. Most they a read is perhaps labels and signs at a supermarket.

I think there's probably a large chunk who "read" Facebook and skim the linked articles poorly.

Re: Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)

#17
When I log into LinkedIn, it seems like a vast majority of the posts are there to farm credibility and build a personal brand.

Pre LLMs, I found it all to be pretty gross. Post LLMs, my reaction to being on the receiving end of that is to find it pretty intellectually insulting.

There are ways in which using an LLM is branding suicide.

Re: Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)

#18

I was fired from my job at spotify for taking fmla when i my dad was dying from cancer. I've been marking the my directors posts on linkedin as 'looks like ai slop'.

Talk to a lawyer about that firing. You might have a case.
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