2y ago

AI detectors are destroying innocent writers' livelihoods

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2y ago

AI detectors are destroying innocent writers' livelihoods

authory.com /blog/how-ai-detectors-are-destroying-livelihoods

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Didn't OpenAI stop working on a AI detector because they were not reliable?
- yup, its literally in the article
- Code made to mimic human vocabulary mimics human vocabulary and everyone is shocked? When is this going to stop being news lmao
This reminds me of a science fiction setting in which the human race basically halted all media production because an AI was created that scanned pieces of literature to see if any passages themes, characters, or plot points were based on anything from a pre-existing work owned by a major company. Which basically everything is going to be because absolutely nothing is ever created in a vacuum.
So no one could write anymore without facing a major lawsuit and having an AI basically tell the judge that you're guilty as fuck
- Sounds like Cory Doctorow writing about Disney.
  
  It's Jon Sleeper writing about Disney actually
How the fuck can people use these BS detectors when it has been proven probably a thousand times that it can't differentiate anything?
The Constitution, Bible, probably Mein Kampf and Uncle Tom too would all be "made by AI" if we treated these programs as gospel.
And these text AI's are never going away, the instant one actually can hold a character for an entire book-length, romance novels are in real trouble at bare minimum, soon almost everyone will be having to compete with a thousand fake authors just to make it somewhere. It'll be interesting to see...
You are found guilty, citizen. Report to the nearest incineration chamber.
So, they aren't using his real name, and they aren't naming the company that fired him. I'll take this with a grain of salt until facts are presented. For an article about journalism, there is a shocking lack of it.
- There's a pretty clear need for anonymity here and the client isn't necessarily a company. Based on a large number of reports I've seen around social media of the same stuff happening to students, I believe the anecdote, even if they aren't providing evidence it happened.
  
  Eh, I'm not so sure. Unless he signed some kind of NDA, he's not any any real danger of legal repercussion, and the fact that he's freelance with only 200 articles after 3 years tells me that this is a side gig and not his full time job. This comes off as band-wagoning at best, and fear-mongering bullshit at worst. Maybe there is a grain of truth in it, but I'm not going to take this at face value. There is way too much anti-AI rhetoric going around right now for me to just openly accept it as anything more than clickbait.

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