Just need to get AI on that.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a related FAQ, they also officially admit what we already know: AI writing detectors don't work, despite frequently being used to punish students with false positives.
In July, we covered in depth why AI writing detectors such as GPTZero don't work, with experts calling them "mostly snake oil."
That same month, OpenAI discontinued its AI Classifier, which was an experimental tool designed to detect AI-written text.
Along those lines, OpenAI also addresses its AI models' propensity to confabulate false information, which we have also covered in detail at Ars.
"Sometimes, ChatGPT sounds convincing, but it might give you incorrect or misleading information (often called a 'hallucination' in the literature)," the company writes.
Also, some sloppy attempts to pass off AI-generated work as human-written can leave tell-tale signs, such as the phrase "as an AI language model," which means someone copied and pasted ChatGPT output without being careful.
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Aren't there very few student priced ai writers? And isn't the writing done on their servers? And aren't they saving all the outputs?
Can't the ai companies sell to schools the ability to check paper submissions against recent outputs?
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We need to embrace AI written content fully. Language is just a protocol for communication. If AI can flesh out the "packets" for us nicely in a way that fits what the receiving humans need to understand the communication then that's a major win. Now I can ask AI to write me a nice letter and prompt it with a short bulleted list of what I want to say. Boom! Done, and time is saved.
The professional writers who used to slave over a blank Word document are now obsolete, just like the slide rule "computers" of old (the people who could solve complicated mathematics and engineering problems on paper).
Teachers who thought a hand written report could be used to prove that "education" has happened are now realizing that the idea was a crutch (it was 25 years ago too when we could copy/paste Microsoft Encarta articles and use as our research papers).
The technology really just shows us that our language capabilities really are just a means to an end. If a better means asrises we should figure out how to maximize it.
Huh?