AI Megathread

Pavel

Use it as a tool alongside human judgment.

Obviously this is the correct course, but basically every institutional use that I have personally seen has been lacking in the latter section.

Which is a problem in terms of work culture, not the tool, yes but when you’re relying on the tool to make decisions that directly impact a person’s likelihood of getting a degree, or getting/keeping a job? I don’t think we should be using, much less relying on, imperfect tools for in those instances.

Faraday

@Pavel said in AI Megathread:

Obviously this is the correct course, but basically every institutional use that I have personally seen has been lacking in the latter section.

Which is a problem in terms of work culture, not the tool, yes but when you’re relying on the tool to make decisions that directly impact a person’s likelihood of getting a degree, or getting/keeping a job? I don’t think we should be using, much less relying on, imperfect tools for in those instances.

This is my problem, yes. However, I attribute it to the tool as much as the work culture.

These things portray themselves as far more reliable than they actually are in practice. The UX also lends toward this reliance, displaying results like “31% likely to be AI”. That, again, is giving the misleading impression of a highly precise and reliable tool. And unlike a plagiarism detector, which can point you to the original, these tools are much more opaque.

You don’t have to look far on substack to find tons of authors (pissed off about the recent addition of Pangram to the site) pointing out false positives in their own work. Even a comparatively low false-positive rate can create massive implications when used at large scales.

Roadspike

@Aria said in AI Megathread:

I’m pretty sure we’re all just living in the plot of Wall-E now and I hate it here.

Wall-E and Idiocracy. Yup.

A10 Rockwell

@Faraday A better question is why are you spending this much effort trying to detect LLM usage in the first place? If you can’t actually tell the difference between what some idiot romantasy author wrote and what some less-censored chat gippity clone spat out then it really speaks ill of said romantasy author.

Maybe xir needs to just git gud? Has she considered applying to Panda Express? I heard they’re hiring lately. You can even get a job there if you’re a White man.

Ashkuri

FYI as a resource to those interested, there are non-AI grammar checkers, such as Harper

L. B. Heuschkel

@Ashkuri THANK YOU. I am sick and tired of ProWriteAid pushing AI on me (and failing because I’m even more stubborn than it is). Checking this out right now.

Edit: Woe, it’s Mac only? I’m a windows user. Woe is me!

Coin

@L.-B.-Heuschkel said:

@Ashkuri THANK YOU. I am sick and tired of ProWriteAid pushing AI on me (and failing because I’m even more stubborn than it is). Checking this out right now.

Edit: Woe, it’s Mac only? I’m a windows user. Woe is me!

The offline downloadable/installable version is macOS. But there’s a Chrome extension that works fine on Ares.