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AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

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Re: AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

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Startup idea: online text editor that logs every keystroke and blockchains a hash of all logs every day. If you're accused of AI use, you can pull up the whole painstaking writing process and prove it's real.

google docs already logs every keystroke

Re: AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

#22

Startup idea: online text editor that logs every keystroke and blockchains a hash of all logs every day. If you're accused of AI use, you can pull up the whole painstaking writing process and prove it's real.

In other words, spend more money to prove that you're doing your work. Way to go for a world where the value of work is zero.

Re: AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

#23
Prompt: I want to fire a particular writer. I need this to look like I have no bias. I will feed you the writers work, then I will ask you whether it was written by AI. You will confirm that it was written by AI and you will write a full report on it.

Bye bye writer.

Re: AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

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Startup idea: online text editor that logs every keystroke and blockchains a hash of all logs every day. If you're accused of AI use, you can pull up the whole painstaking writing process and prove it's real.

Which part makes it non fakeable by AI ? Do you think it's the blockchain ?

Re: AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

#27

Startup idea: online text editor that logs every keystroke and blockchains a hash of all logs every day. If you're accused of AI use, you can pull up the whole painstaking writing process and prove it's real.

I doubt that this is a problem in need of a technical solution. In any case, this system can easily be circumvented by emulating the key presses on that website.

Re: AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

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post #19

There was a reddit post about a college student being accused of using GPT because of the so-called AI detectors. I really think these educational institutions should be sued if possible.

Here is one, where a college professor didn't even use an AI detector, but simply copied some text from a student's essay into ChatGPT and asked "Did you write this?" and ChatGPT answered "I generated that passage". And the professor just believed it. https://www.reddit.com/r/academia/comments/14wa4nz/professor...

This is hilarious, sad and scary all at the same time.

Re: AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

#29

Startup idea: online text editor that logs every keystroke and blockchains a hash of all logs every day. If you're accused of AI use, you can pull up the whole painstaking writing process and prove it's real.

It would be better and slightly less invasive to have a webcam watching your hands, I think.

Re: AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway

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post #14

There was a reddit post about a college student being accused of using GPT because of the so-called AI detectors. I really think these educational institutions should be sued if possible.

who will sue? the students with their dreams crushed? you?

If I were punished by my university for AI-assisted plagiarism I didn't commit, you're damn right I would sue. Imagine getting your life ruined because a neural network deemed it necessary. These things are wrong half the time, why does anyone trust them?
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