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When writing, I often start with a poorly written draft that I then polish during a second pass. Recently, I've been experimenting with ChatGPT to see if it can
by arcastroe 4y ago
When writing, I often start with a poorly written draft that I then polish during a second pass. Recently, I've been experimenting with ChatGPT to see if it can help with the editing phase. "Please rewrite this to fix grammar and spelling. Please also rewrite it in a professional voice."
Are AI detection tools able to distinguish this (arguably fair) use of AI from "Please write the whole thing for me from scratch"?
- g_p 4y agoThe detection tools currently aren't great/perfect. I've noticed that some of them will detect "hollow" text (think profile boosting wannabe thought leader type content from LinkedIn), as being a very high probability of being automatically generated. I don't think the text in question was from a generative model (based on when it was posted), but I can see the stylistic traits in hollow, substance-free human generated text, which detection algorithms try to find. I think you would be safest to avoid using it like that for now, as the kinds of traits sought include lengths of sentences, peculiarity of words in relation to each other etc. These properties are likely to feed through into the final text when you ask it to redraft. In saying this, automated detection isn't likely to be reliable enough to take action over (in the longer term). Though I guess from a very blunt personal viewpoint, if someone's own writing can be confused with a generative model output, it probably isn't very insightful work to begin with!