Sebastian Z
Fesshole 🧻I am an excellent writer with an MA in English Lit, but in the last six months have been repeatedly accused of using AI to produce my work. I am now deliberately sabotaging my own copy so it seems more plausible that I wrote it. I hate living in this timeline.
Chozari 賈 (she/her)@fesshole I’ve been seriously considering forgetting doing my Master and/or PhD because of this exact problem.
StuartI was discussing a new website with a client this week. I described how I would build the structure of the site but they had to fill in the words.
"Oh, we will use ChatGPT" they said.
Doh!
They even have a professional writer who could do better words than me (and ChatGPT) . Let's hope I convinced them.
@stuartg @fesshole 🤦🏻♀️ I hope you did too, but don’t give yourself a hard time if you haven’t been successful in that. People are sliding into it willingly. I’m in a similar situation. I’m working in a group this past few weeks with a leader who is the same. I get the vibe that she’s actually been super-reliant on it for at *least* a year. It doesn’t occur to her to do something without it, it would seem. No decisionmaking process left.
Drey
WesDym@chozari My fear is that instead of making human efforts better, it will just make human workers lazier and dumber. I've seen the same trend with automated features in cars. I have personally met people who don't know how to turn their own headlamps on, including at least one driver who was sure that control doesn't even exist.
Maybe WALL-E was right. Maybe our tech will infantilize us to the extent that we can't function without it anymore, even for basic things.
Court Cantrell does not comply
Hello, my name is Disappoint
Luke Harby
Gabriel N
Solitha@chozari You may be able to avoid this by keeping an audit trail. Save each stage of writing.
Google Docs does this automatically, and helped quite a few higher-ed students defend themselves against accusations.
Simon Willcocks@fesshole Show them some of your earlier work.
the hatter
Alsy@fesshole I have done this. Intentionally left typos in rather than correcting them. It’s exhausting.
@Alsy I don't. Maybe I just like to fight with people. Actually, I do know why: It's a kind of existential fatalism. I'd rather be the victim of a society that demands I dumb down my own work than participate in it. I don't want to live in a world that doesn't want me to live in it.
Sean Murphy@fesshole I look forward to the day the AI bubble bursts, services are taken offline or become extremely restricted and exposes all the frauds who have built a career asking ChatGPT.
@WoodlandSpirit I'm wondering if half the people in my own company can even take a piss without help from AI.
BoloMKXXVIII
Tina@fesshole There are certain traits to an author you can tell is not AI. One does there consist a funny part or joke. Ai can not joke or understan the frame of it something that is only you as the author. Does it have more than one sentence because that is what it like to spit out. Do not get wrong there is nothing wrong getting some AI help with ideas. It is a tool one should use their imagination.
I know some authors who spit out one sentence like AI. They seem similar to AI off the shef. It really confuse the reader that they might be AI.
@fesshole I've been accused of being AI online many times. I've even had people try to actively prompt me. As near as I can tell, it's because I write like a fucking educated grown-up most of the time, which I guess is rare enough that people believe humans don't do that. It's depressing.
gypsyvegan@fesshole 1000%. If I get accused of being an AI bot for using em-dashes one more time.....😤 😫
noplasticshower@fesshole that's the dumbest thing I have heard today
⚙️ Roy Phillips@fesshole I'm re-reading Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, and am shocked to discover, from his use of em-dashes and 'rule of three' that he was using an LLM to write his books all along.
wendythedruid@fesshole this has happened to me too just because I use a framework in my writing ( I walk into the bar , I get a drink , shit happens ) this apparently too formulaic for a human to write it , I just like my stories to hold a form