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> That would make me lower my trust of that author. Would it? How would you tell? How can you prove that a piece of text was not written by an artificial intel

> That would make me lower my trust of that author. Would it? How would you tell? How can you prove that a piece of text was not written by an artificial intelligence? > (likely because the author is human) I think that's the real problem we're facing right now - humans are no longer the only plausibly intelligent beings on the planet, to the point where the meme-ish line between artificial intelligence and natural stupidity begins to blur. The only way in which you can tell these two apart at the moment is via approximation, just as you've used the word "likely".

alkonaut 4y ago
> Would it? How would you tell? How can you prove that a piece of text was not written by an artificial intelligence? You either read enough of them and attribute enough quality that you don't care that it was. This isn't a system to prove whether strangers are human or not. It's a system to keep track of whether their output is human enough for you to bother reading it. If they write 100 things you think feel human, then you can have some certainty that the 101st thing will feel human. That's all. Won't say anything about whether strangers are human. The key here is "likely" and "whether you'll bother". A Turing-like proof of humannes will be possible for the foreseeable future but the caveat is of course a) you don't have time to do that and b) you don't have access to authors even if you did. The social friends-and-their-friends trust networks have a vert quick dropoff too. If you trust your uncle to be human and exchange keys in person (and you'd be good at noticing whether his keys were compromised or he started signing off spam as human for $5), you'll likely never trust his neighbor that you never met as much. But perhaps the total "initial score" of an anonymous signature can be significantly higher if they are in a network you trust. This is directly analogous to normal "trust" where you might rather trust your uncles neighbor to babysit than a total stranger, even though you never met them.

alkonaut 4y ago

> Would it? How would you tell? How can you prove that a piece of text was not written by an artificial intelligence? You either read enough of them and attribute enough quality that you don't care that it was. This isn't a system to prove whether strangers are human or not. It's a system to keep track of whether their output is human enough for you to bother reading it. If they write 100 things you think feel human, then you can have some certainty that the 101st thing will feel human. That's all. Won't say anything about whether strangers are human. The key here is "likely" and "whether you'll bother". A Turing-like proof of humannes will be possible for the foreseeable future but the caveat is of course a) you don't have time to do that and b) you don't have access to authors even if you did. The social friends-and-their-friends trust networks have a vert quick dropoff too. If you trust your uncle to be human and exchange keys in person (and you'd be good at noticing whether his keys were compromised or he started signing off spam as human for $5), you'll likely never trust his neighbor that you never met as much. But perhaps the total "initial score" of an anonymous signature can be significantly higher if they are in a network you trust. This is directly analogous to normal "trust" where you might rather trust your uncles neighbor to babysit than a total stranger, even though you never met them.