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The first 40 months of the AI era

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Re: The first 40 months of the AI era

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Post by etherus »

H8crilA wrote: post #9

Do you regularly find text content that you know is AI written (but is not marked as such)? Because honestly I don't, and it must exist in decent quantity by now. Or perhaps it's still sparse?

Have a look here [1] and here [2] - I think they are good resources, but fallible in the long run. I think yes, I do, often confirmed by communication with people I know (i.e. i suspect they have used AI to make something -> I ask). This falls victim to confirmation bias, though. I suspect a nontrivial amount of writing I read is AI generated without me realising, and I'm wary also of falsely flagging AI-generated content that is actually from humans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AAI_or_not_quiz [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ASigns_of_AI_writin...

Re: The first 40 months of the AI era

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Post by insin »

H8crilA wrote: post #9

Do you regularly find text content that you know is AI written (but is not marked as such)? Because honestly I don't, and it must exist in decent quantity by now. Or perhaps it's still sparse?

Literally every day from green accounts on Hacker News, and in many, many TFAs.

Re: The first 40 months of the AI era

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Post by KellyCriterion »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #12

> 40 months Not counting from 1971s DARPA? Sorry I'm allegric when LLMs being called AI like nothing existed before it.

Could the "LLM" of 1971 DARPA produce working code that it translated from a legacy codebase to Java and this within a short timeframe? ;-)

Re: The first 40 months of the AI era

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Post by jeffreyrogers »

H8crilA wrote: post #9

Do you regularly find text content that you know is AI written (but is not marked as such)? Because honestly I don't, and it must exist in decent quantity by now. Or perhaps it's still sparse?

Yes, here, reddit, X, at work in people's emails and status reports.

Re: The first 40 months of the AI era

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Post by H8crilA »

etherus wrote: post #11
H8crilA wrote: post #9

Do you regularly find text content that you know is AI written (but is not marked as such)? Because honestly I don't, and it must exist in decent quantity by now. Or perhaps it's still sparse?

Have a look here [1] and here [2] - I think they are good resources, but fallible in the long run. I think yes, I do, often confirmed by communication with people I know (i.e. i suspect they have used AI to make something -> I ask). This falls victim to confirmation bias, though. I suspect a nontrivial amount of writing I read is AI generated without me realising, and I'm wary also of falsely flagging AI-generated co…

Okay, but the answers in [1] look something like:

AI generated. Some of the clues include:

- Most obviously, a failed ISBN checksum

- Other source-to-text integrity issues; for example, the WWF source says very little about Malaysia specifically, only mentions Sunda tigers (Panthera tigris sondaica), and does not mention tapirs at all

- Very short yet consistent paragraph length

- Generic "see also" links, one of which is redlinked

This is not the sort of thing that I pay attention to unless I'm doing detailed research. And even then I'd probably have a bot check these for me, ironically, since it's such a mechanical job. At the very least detecting AI like this requires conscious effort.

Re: The first 40 months of the AI era

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Post by OrangePilled »

This is a sound personal assessment.

The section about being "glazed" into action resonates. Hidden within this concept I think is something profound about human motivation, innuendo and all.

> AI generated prose is at best boring, and at worst genuinely unappealing. I’m continually tempted, because in theory it should work well. The AI has perfect spelling and grammar, has more than enough context to produce article-length content, and can do in seconds what takes me hours.

I have a thesis in mind...that there is something fundamental to the human spirit that relishes a sort of friction that LLMs cannot observe or reproduce on their own.

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