Alternative reading: company determines that paid contractor is producing content that they can’t distinguish from a borderline free LLM, and decides to use it instead. Isn’t it likely that AI (not the detector) is the real threat to freelance writers’ livelihoods?
The false positive rate of AI detectors and its effect on freelance writers
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#82I want to see an "AI detector" that just marks everything as being not AI generated. Then, whenever someone is accused of using an AI by some nameless website, they can present their own website that shows they didn't use AI. Professor: "The website said you used an AI." Student: "Well, here's a website claiming I didn't use an AI." Professor: "I don't know if I believe that website, let's look into the merits of how…
Students are in a weird case. Currently instructors aren’t experts in AI tools because, well, they didn’t exist 10 years ago when even the young professors were learning how to do things. The best that can be done at the moment is to teach the old way. The current students are the ones who will need to make the AI based workflows. But obviating intro assignments by having the AI do them doesn’t benefit anybody.
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#83AI writing tends to be bland and repetitive. So if this encourages people to not write like an AI then that's a win
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#84The teachers that don't want to use them will continue to churn out students that score high and don't know how to articulate a damn thing. Which may have been the status quo anyway.
Edit: I didn't like my original post
Re: The false positive rate of AI detectors and its effect on freelance writers
#85I want to see an "AI detector" that just marks everything as being not AI generated. Then, whenever someone is accused of using an AI by some nameless website, they can present their own website that shows they didn't use AI. Professor: "The website said you used an AI." Student: "Well, here's a website claiming I didn't use an AI." Professor: "I don't know if I believe that website, let's look into the merits of how…
Surely this is trivial to refute? The professor just needs to have his own text that he generated using AI. When your website says it's not AI... then it's curtains I guess?
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#86You know you're doing wrong, and doing harm—but you see a pitiful profit in it, so.
Re: The false positive rate of AI detectors and its effect on freelance writers
#87I want to see an "AI detector" that just marks everything as being not AI generated. Then, whenever someone is accused of using an AI by some nameless website, they can present their own website that shows they didn't use AI. Professor: "The website said you used an AI." Student: "Well, here's a website claiming I didn't use an AI." Professor: "I don't know if I believe that website, let's look into the merits of how…
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#88Pretty sure we are going to see a rise in the use of Oral Exams. The teachers that don't want to use them will continue to churn out students that score high and don't know how to articulate a damn thing. Which may have been the status quo anyway. Edit: I didn't like my original post
Because of crippling anxiety.
So how do you account for that? Or autism? Or any other sort of neurological disability?
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#89By this point I'd just be recording myself typing it if in case this ever came up. Like what other defense is there? "No I didn't" prove it "I can't"
What are the chances that anyone who has a AI text detection tool ALSO has a AI generates text at human like speed with edits detector.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
> pick up a new career It sounds so easy put like that. Hmm.. what do I have to do today? Get some mustard at the grocery store, pick up a new career, drop the dog off at the vet.
That something can be plainly put doesn’t imply that it’s easy. We can have sympathy for the guy and want to support him while also recognizing the practicality that he’s been walking down a dead end road and needs to change course. Even without LLM’s, fluff writing is ripe for outsourcing to second-language writers in cheaper markets and gets more efficient as those markets optimize for it. It can be a job for a whi…
Similarly, SEO often demands some graphic/any graphic to go with a story/blog/etc. and GenerativeAI is perfectly able to provide that--though lower-end royalty-free stock is pretty cheap in any case.