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While I don't doubt it, there's probably an uncanny valley too: if a writer's English contains spelling errors, or ungrammatical or unidiomatic constructions, A
by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
While I don't doubt it, there's probably an uncanny valley too: if a writer's English contains spelling errors, or ungrammatical or unidiomatic constructions, AI won't make the same mistakes. As the English level improves, now the spelling and grammar is correct, but you have a limited repertoire of correct constructions to draw from. This may lead to repetitive structure and wordiness as the meaning is shoehorned into more, simpler, phrases. I imagine this is what sets off the AI detectors.
Considering that AI writing standards will probably only increase from here, encroaching on the territory native English speakers operate at, perhaps the best way to mark yourself as not-AI is to start making many errors.
This will work for a week or two until someone tunes a model to also do this, and the arms race grinds ever on!
It also goes for other languages too, so luckily for me, I have a short period where my dreadful other languages will be an advantage.
- anothernewdude 3y agoAI will make the most common mistakes.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoI haven't really noticed any grammatical or spelling errors. And if that was a problem, if you also train it using a spelling/grammar checker of the type we've had for decades, it's probably going to be an insignificant amount compared to some non-native writers.
- ghaff 3y agoIt's mediocre in a way that's different from how many humans would be mediocre.
- rpastuszak 3y agoSidenote: from the pov of descriptive linguistics LLMs _seem_ amazing: a fairly true representation of the consensus we call our language. But, this gets more complicated in practice, as the dataset will be always biased. So in a sense the opposite is true: LLMs are prescriptivist as they reflect the biases of the people involved in their creation, thus introducing a "standard" version of the language(s), just not in a completely deliberate way.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoSidethought to sidenote: I'm now imagining the Académie Française engaging in huge state-funded black-budget operations to infiltrate language models to finally enforce the correct French language standards once and for all.
- ElFitz 3y ago> to finally enforce the correct French language standards once and for all. *the one and only true and perfect French language standard When you look at the Académie Française's history and origins, it’s quite jarring. I will never forget Mézeray's preference for « l’ancienne orthographe, qui distingue les gens de Lettres d’avec les Ignorants et les simples femmes » ("the traditional spelling that sets apart the educated from the ignorant and women", women as a whole being described as ordinary simpletons). Another funny thing is how they aren’t linguists. Just writers. Not language experts. Writers. Experts at writing stuff liked by the people who pick "Académiciens". Seriously, it’s ridiculous.
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