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Re: AI uBlock Blacklist

#11
Admirable idea and execution…but it does apply opposing evolutionary/economic pressure for AI-slop to become less detectable over time. AI will learn and adapt.

Metaphorically speaking, it’s the Borg we’re dealing with, not the Klingons. All Janeway did was slow the Borg’s progress.

Re: AI uBlock Blacklist

#12
post #8

Not necessarily disagreeing the whole principle... > All I hear is skill issue. Imagine needing an AI to write stuff. Grammarly users (and underrepresented non-English speakers) would complain.

I use Grammarly at work (it's mostly to make sure our brand guidelines are kept) and I don't find that it (defaultly) corrects too far into the ai slop territory. It's mostly just making sure your sentence is correct. Op is going after AI slop bot farms like android authority

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Re: AI uBlock Blacklist

#13
post #4

Not necessarily disagreeing the whole principle... > All I hear is skill issue. Imagine needing an AI to write stuff. Grammarly users (and underrepresented non-English speakers) would complain.

Personally I find that I prefer badly written english or auto-translated stuff written in languages foreign to me over ai generated or even just ai polished works I've seen. There is just so much more character, depth and variance there vs ultra ai generic or slop text. That being said this project seems focused on content farms not people who just need a little help writing so this whole conversation is a bit of a s…

One of my coworkers is EXTREMELY capable but functionally almost illiterate. He’s recently discovered that he can put an idea in Copilot and have it generate an email. So now instead of brief, correct, but difficult to parse emails we receive 20-paragraph, bulleted, formatted OpenAI slop. It’s been a very strange thing to see, like someone getting extraordinarily bad cosmetic surgery.

Re: AI uBlock Blacklist

#14

Not necessarily disagreeing the whole principle... > All I hear is skill issue. Imagine needing an AI to write stuff. Grammarly users (and underrepresented non-English speakers) would complain.

If you don't know English and you want to write English anyway, please just use a machine translator.

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#15

Not necessarily disagreeing the whole principle... > All I hear is skill issue. Imagine needing an AI to write stuff. Grammarly users (and underrepresented non-English speakers) would complain.

If you don't know English and you want to write English anyway, please just use a machine translator.

Why? A model correcting your errors is a powerful tool to learn the language, much better than just writing the phrase in your native language.

Re: AI uBlock Blacklist

#16

Admirable idea and execution…but it does apply opposing evolutionary/economic pressure for AI-slop to become less detectable over time. AI will learn and adapt. Metaphorically speaking, it’s the Borg we’re dealing with, not the Klingons. All Janeway did was slow the Borg’s progress.

Cory Doctorow wrote a story ~20 years ago about how the first sentient machines would be spam bots because their job is to pass as human, and anti-spam systems provide competitive evolutionary pressure.

He may not be too far off.

Re: AI uBlock Blacklist

#17

Not necessarily disagreeing the whole principle... > All I hear is skill issue. Imagine needing an AI to write stuff. Grammarly users (and underrepresented non-English speakers) would complain.

If you don't know English and you want to write English anyway, please just use a machine translator.

…what? no? why?

Re: AI uBlock Blacklist

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post #2

A new more grounded list focused on specifically blocking content farms and similar low quality sites. A nice alternative to this very broad anti ai list: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist Edit: Oh I should mention I found it through reddit and there is some good discussion there where they describe how they find stuff etc: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1r9uo3j/autom...

The broad list seems to just be a hater list. It's not trying to cover cases of deception (passing off AI material as if it's something else), as it includes sites which are very open about what kind of content is on there.
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