abadideaJun 12, 2023

so two different massive Content Farms that depend heavily on the free labor of moderators have pushed their mods into a strike in the space of a week, one over AI nonsense and the other over trying to imitate Elon. Maximum 2023 behavior

(stack overflow and reddit)

Show threadEat My Wings To Keep Me Tame
@0xabad1dea any videos/podcasts explaining the stack overflow stuff? I missed that one
Jun 12, 2023 at 2:11pmWeb
Show threadabadideaJun 12, 2023
@redlilrascal the site owners told the moderators they're not allowed to remove posts for being obviously AI generated anymore
Show threadBen EsquivelJun 12, 2023
@0xabad1dea @redlilrascal hmmm, so they want now moderators to fact-check AI content which is a completely different effort than checking good ol’ users. What’s next? Moderators will discuss with an AI chatbot why their content could be factually wrong?
Show threadBrittany WilsonJun 12, 2023
@0xabad1dea @redlilrascal Did they say why the AI posts need to stay up? Because no obvious justification is easily coming to mind for me! I disagree with Reddit’s motives but I do understand them af least
Show threadabadideaJun 12, 2023
@sameoldstory @redlilrascal the best argument for tolerating the posts (IMO) is that ESL speakers may use AI to write more professionally and then have their posts removed.
Show threadBrittany WilsonJun 12, 2023
@0xabad1dea @redlilrascal hmmm I’m not sure I buy this though. AI-generated text doesn’t come with a warning label or anything, you can only tell ChatGPT authored something if it basically wrote the whole thing — and IME it’s actually straight up inaccuracies in its writing that give it away (by this I mean when it writes something that sounds vaguely convincing but isn’t something anyone with subject matter knowledge would ever claim)
Show threadEat My Wings To Keep Me TameJun 12, 2023
@0xabad1dea @sameoldstory wont esl users just use translation tools instead? I dont understand what AI has to do with non engish speakers...
Show threadBrittany WilsonJun 12, 2023
@redlilrascal @0xabad1dea Translation tools often don’t spit out results that are nice to read (though I assume it’s only a matter of time before AI fixes that too). ChatGPT can be really help your text sound native speaker written — but I don’t think using ChatGPT to put some polish on your own writing should be noticeable to anybody else, and it should completely evade automatic detection tools (since in that case it’s just your own words with better grammar)
Show threadEat My Wings To Keep Me TameJun 12, 2023
@sameoldstory @0xabad1dea agreed, im not a regular stack overflow user since the ai stuff happened but i imagine the vast majority of it is native english speakers who dont know what theyre talking about spamming the forums to feel smart, not ppl inputting original text to be translated into english