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It's hilarious watching people act like AI is so good that AI can't tell an AI wrote something.
To you those might seem completely different, but you're overestimating AI on one side and underestimating on the other.
It's a hell of a lot easier for AI to check for similarities than it is to write something without similarities, even if a human can't see them. Checking is always easier than producing for AI
It's mathematically impossible to detect them reliably. But I know you will know it better.
https://www.techspot.com/news/98031-reliable-detection-ai-generated-text-impossible-new-study.html
Edit: here is the actual study: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11156
Here is the link in that article to The study
Regarding mathematical impossibility...
Interesting. Now, this is just one paper. And one paper does not mean the science is settled on that topic.
The implications are certainly interesting.
I'm curious how much data would be required to successfully mimic a specific writing style (e.g. lemmy post or research paper or letter to family) for a specific person. And conversely how easy it would be to detect.
I haven't thought about this in depth yet. But the threats that come to mind are: someone spoofing me for some reason or me using AI to "research" and write for me (school, say) so I don't actually have to learn anything. The former makes me wonder if digital signatures will become more widely adopted. The latter probably requires a different approach to assessing the knowledge of students. I'm sure there are other threats we can think of given a little more time.
This is like someone disputing an article about the Wright Brothers first flight with one from 6 months earlier that says manned flight can't happen...