I knew this was a clickbait when it’s gizmodo, but oof
The mods in the Wired story explain how they detect AI content, and unfortunately their methods boil down to “It’s vibes.”
Hey man, if the vibes aren’t right, it’s probably AI. Uncanny Valley and shit, bruh. Seems legit.
You are absolutely right!
I am horribly mistaken! :)
I have all these odd pauses in my speech and just realized they’re em dashes.
I’m one of those deranged few who actually used em dashes in my normal typing habits. Not super often the way LLMs are prone to, maybe once a month tops. Alt+0151 or Compose, dash, dash, dash.
Now a find myself reluctant to use what I felt was a useful bit of punctuation out of concern people might think what I’m typing was LLM generated. It sucks.
I always liked the dramatic…
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I’ve never used em-dashes to represent them. Am I doing it wrong?
People have been speaking with punctuation since language was invented. If you only now realize that pause is an em-dash, that’s on your schooling. :-p
Pauses are much better than filler words.
Your brain runs on ChatGPT now. Better start eating a diet of NVidia GPUs.
Well—that is certainly a meticulous observation! 🔍
It bolsters my theory that LLMs are repacing brain usage by humans
The thing is, for most people that’s an improvement.
No it isn’t, shut the fuck up
You’re absolutely right!
Oh—I’m sorry. Here’s the correct answer.
So perversely chatbots are increasing people’s vocabulary because people read so few books anymore and most of their word usage comes from what they read online?
What’s more than that, chatbots use those words because writers use those words. That’s journalist vocab. And bots were trained on articles and written speech. I think you’re right, people just weren’t reading anything.
That’s kinda how I took it. Be funny if language evolved back into flowery Victorian speech.
It’s not flowery though, just bland.
If AI is modeled after intellectuals, there will inevitably be a swath of non-intellectuals who conclude the post title… because the idea of intellectuals predating AI is unthinkable to them.
I used an AI to analyze a piece of writing I did years ago, long before AI was a thing. It determined that there was some huge margin of my work was likely written by AI, and when I asked why, it stated by use of sentence structure, words spelt using British spellings, oxford commas, and emdashes indicated I was AI — which I am not.
What logically follows is that I need to be as weird and eccentric as possible in order to counteract the memetic contagion of a lovecraftian averaging machine. I bet I could make a cult out of this!
Summon the thorn character guy
It’s a catch-22 - try to be more unique, in an effort not to lose your humanity, but in doing so keep feeding the machine which subsists on creativity. A human-AI ouroboros.
If a development leads to the downfall of r/AmITheAsshole, I’m all for it.
What’s that, and why should it be destroyed?
It’s a subreddit mentioned in the article that is mostly used to claim moral superiority by constructing ridiculous fake stories. Its mods claim that they are starting to have trouble to distinguish genuine from generated responses, but this sub always sounded like one giant moralistic hivemind.
And just to be sure: It was a joke.
If you read the actual article there’s barely any evidence that any of what they are claiming is even remotely true. They talk about vague connections through certain words being used on YouTube that are, in their own words, inconclusive. And a bunch of anecdotal instances on reddit in which mods use “vibes” to detect AI slop comments and posts. And then finish with more anecdotes about some real world encounters that they think are written by AI.
I mean, no doubt that AI garbage is filtering into online discourse because let’s face it, people are lazy assholes who want easy karma and updoots. But this is hardly evidence that actual conversational language is being altered by AI.
AI is writing about itself.
And I kid you not, AI likes to use “and I kid you not” a lot!
“You know the saying, ‘Human see, human do.’” - Julius, Planet of the Apes
It won’t be long before the keyboard itself is minimized for online communication. Models will be personalized for you in the sense that your text messages, emails, etc can all be generated. Then you just have to select the one you want to use. Kind of like auto-completion now taken to the next level with “AI”.
Doubtful since I’ve yet to use one, but whatever.
ChatGPT alone has over 800 million weekly users yet you doubt this because you personally don’t use one?
It said humans as in everyone, just giving my anecdotal evidence. No I’m not speaking for everyone. What a sad statistic by the way.
It doesn’t matter that you personally don’t use it. Other people do and you can’t escape the influence they have on you no more than they can that of an LLM.
I also find it odd to have such a strong opinion about something you have zero first-hand experience of.
I live in the mountains with satellite internet. The closest people are from the way station thousands of miles away. Humans have no more influence on me than those strange, collusi shadow creatures that roams the mountain at night, outside my house.
Fucking try me, I’ve done it my whole life so far. I really don’t care what you find odd about me. Just because I don’t use the technology doesn’t mean I don’t understand it, and that is precisely why I don’t use it.
