The Thread for Reasonable, Informed, and Measured Commentary about A.I.

[TheFrenzy]

JSTOR actually offers a daily puzzle challenging readers to identify which articles are written by AI.

[TheFrenzy]

(I got today's puzzle right.)

[TheFrenzy]

If you've got 13 minutes, watch this video on the current state of the internet and its declining quality.

[hairysasquatch]

https://dnyuz.com/2024/04/08/teen-gi...es-in-schools/

Welp...

[TheFrenzy]

Originally Posted by hairysasquatch

https://dnyuz.com/2024/04/08/teen-gi...es-in-schools/

Welp...

My two cents:

Maybe journalists shouldn't include portrait photos of the school-age victims of deepfake nudes at the top of these articles.

[quackhead]

[TheFrenzy]

Here’s a 4,453-word article “written” by the tech CEO my best friend works for.

It’s clearly written by AI and it’s touting the limitless potential of AI, but at no point does the CEO admit that he’s simply entered his prompts into ChatGPT-4 and let it write the article for him.

[jplarson]

Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

Here’s a 4,453-word article “written” by the tech CEO my best friend works for.

It’s clearly written by AI and it’s touting the limitless potential of AI, but at no point does the CEO admit that he’s simply entered his prompts into ChatGPT-4 and let it write the article for him.

What a selfish CEO.

Can't he enter prompts to solve overpopulation?

Outside of Ohtani cards, it's the next best path to stave off this crisis.

[TheFrenzy]

Originally Posted by jplarson

What a selfish CEO.

My friend wasn't even this nice.

[jplarson]

Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

My friend wasn't even this nice.

His posted reply to "his" article is hilarious!

I put a lot of love into my latest LinkedIn article, "How AI is birthing a Renaissance 2.0 in the coming ‘Age of a Billion Dreams’"

hahahahahahahahahahahaha!

I was willing to dismiss the opening paragraph as corporate jargon:

Perhaps the most critical challenge posed by the global transformation being wrought by artificial intelligence is that we lack not just understanding of the technology and its promise, but the lexicon and vocabulary to acquire that critical understanding

Yes, the most critical challenge to AI is lacking the lexicon and vocabulary to acquire critical understanding.

But then this section? 5th grade trash at best:

So will poets, programmers, rock musicians, actors and movie directors disappear? Hardly, is the short answer. The longer response is what this article is about, so let me share more on the sources of my optimism.

Straight trash. Dumpster fire garbage. I'd be embarrassed to have my byline on something so base.

I might steal "hardly, is the short answer" though. It's so stupid that it's stupid. I could have replied to my old Beckett buddy Foley with that.

[TheFrenzy]

Originally Posted by jplarson

His posted reply to "his" article is hilarious!

hahahahahahahahahahahaha!

I was willing to dismiss the opening paragraph as corporate jargon:

Yes, the most critical challenge to AI is lacking the lexicon and vocabulary to acquire critical understanding.

But then this section? 5th grade trash at best:

Straight trash. Dumpster fire garbage. I'd be embarrassed to have my byline on something so base.

I might steal "hardly, is the short answer" though. It's so stupid that it's stupid. I could have replied to my old Beckett buddy Foley with that.

I described it as "like reading the transcript of a TEDTalk."

And actually, the reason my buddy shared the article with me in the first place was because apparently the CEO and other higher-ups in the company require employees to "read, like, love, and reshare" these things on a daily basis.

Employees who aren't sharing and commenting on their boss's "publications" enough are dinged.

[hairysasquatch]

It just gets worse every day

https://www.yahoo.com/news/seeing-fa...115852651.html

[TheFrenzy]

Relevant:

[hairysasquatch]

More bad news

https://www.wsj.com/politics/how-i-b...r-105-e9888705

[TheFrenzy]

Originally Posted by hairysasquatch

More bad news

https://www.wsj.com/politics/how-i-b...r-105-e9888705

Bad news?

All I'm reading is "how to easily send BUC24 hype to the moon!"

[hairysasquatch]

Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

Bad news?

All I'm reading is "how to easily send BUC24 hype to the moon!"

Well now the issue is what that is going to do to the price, so I'm more chary of creating an unstoppable hype machine such as suggested.

[SleeperCards]

I see my friend's posting Ray Kurzweil "You can live to 500!" stuff, I tell them there's a better chance of AI wiping us out than extending lifespan 400 years.

[TheFrenzy]

Possibly the biggest giveaway that a paper is AI-generated is an abundance of super-polite lists of three. ChatGPT, Bard, and all the other programs LOVE to describe things in groups of three. Any time I see a sentence like “The _____ fostered a greater sense of unity, diversity, and inclusivity” my radar activates. Especially when it comes in the middle of a paragraph.

[SleeperCards]

Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

Possibly the biggest giveaway that a paper is AI-generated is an abundance of super-polite lists of three. ChatGPT, Bard, and all the other programs LOVE to describe things in groups of three. Any time I see a sentence like “The _____ fostered a greater sense of unity, diversity, and inclusivity” my radar activates. Especially when it comes in the middle of a paragraph.

How does it feel about ellipsis...

[TheFrenzy]

Originally Posted by SleeperCards

How does it feel about ellipsis...

I can’t recall seeing it use ellipsis.

[hairysasquatch]

No apparent uses of A.I. in my current batch of papers. Just did a preliminary screening.

[SleeperCards]

Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

I can’t recall seeing it use ellipsis.

Excellent...

[jplarson]

I read someone comment elsewhere that the people working on this technology should have called it "Virtual Intelligence" instead of "Artificial Intelligence". More accurate in that it's not AI like what people expect from movies and books and call it what it is: algorithms and database queries. It's just not as sexy and doesn't pump the viscous blood of venture capitalists or private equity firms...

[JeremyNick]

Originally Posted by TheFrenzy

Here’s a 4,453-word article “written” by the tech CEO my best friend works for.

It’s clearly written by AI and it’s touting the limitless potential of AI, but at no point does the CEO admit that he’s simply entered his prompts into ChatGPT-4 and let it write the article for him.

Just read the article.

Definitely AI generated but without a doubt, he edited it and added more complex sounding words. No way this guy would ever attempt to have a conversation at a 5th grade level. He wants to make sure you know the expanse of his knowledge epistome.

He's the human version of a ChatGPT prompt for "create the most self important CEO".

[JeremyNick]

Originally Posted by hairysasquatch

No apparent uses of A.I. in my current batch of papers. Just did a preliminary screening.

Can AI even pontificate on the gestational period of Sasquatches?
It would be hard to write college level papers using AI, when so little is known of your kind.