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I have begun to wonder if these are PR pieces for AI detection companies.

by wand3r 3y ago

djur 3y ago
I was disappointed to see the use of ZeroGPT in this article as well. A mushroom foraging guide should be written by a properly credentialed expert. A journalist should be able to contact that expert and verify that they wrote the book. That's what's necessary here, not the use of anti-AI tools. And that's what the article does later with "Dr. Kimberly Thorpe". ZeroGPT was not necessary at all.
- soupfordummies 3y ago
  Yeah, I think that was the point that they COULDN'T contact the "expert who wrote the book" because they couldn't exist and then ZeroGPT was the one-two punch to "prove" it was AI. That said, MY biggest takeaway from the article was "Hm, ZeroGPT, wonder how that works?"
  - andybak 3y ago
    It mostly doesn't. There's a huge controversy any tools like this being used to accuse students of using AI and the false positive rate is bad.
    - soupfordummies 3y ago
      Yeah a quick look on their (ZeroGPT) website and it seems like it's basically just a model itself trained on human vs. AI text? It caught what I tested with 100% accuracy but I didn't spend more than a few minutes playing with it.
- ljm 3y ago
  Honestly feel like the topic of AI has become massively over-saturated lately too. It's been getting an awful lot of interest and attention since ChatGPT, which is totally fair, but the hype is wearing thin. Amazon doesn't necessarily have an 'AI-generated books' problem, it has a quality control problem due to decisions it's made around managing inventory and acting as a distributor for third party merchants. That quality control problem affects almost everything Amazon sells on a marketplace that has steadily enshittificated itself over the past several years, and mass-producing zero-effort ebooks has been going on ever since you could self-publish there.

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I have begun to wonder if these are PR pieces for AI detection companies.

by wand3r 3y ago

I have begun to wonder if these are PR pieces for AI detection companies.

djur 3y ago
I was disappointed to see the use of ZeroGPT in this article as well. A mushroom foraging guide should be written by a properly credentialed expert. A journalist should be able to contact that expert and verify that they wrote the book. That's what's necessary here, not the use of anti-AI tools. And that's what the article does later with "Dr. Kimberly Thorpe". ZeroGPT was not necessary at all.
- soupfordummies 3y ago
  Yeah, I think that was the point that they COULDN'T contact the "expert who wrote the book" because they couldn't exist and then ZeroGPT was the one-two punch to "prove" it was AI. That said, MY biggest takeaway from the article was "Hm, ZeroGPT, wonder how that works?"
  - andybak 3y ago
    It mostly doesn't. There's a huge controversy any tools like this being used to accuse students of using AI and the false positive rate is bad.
    - soupfordummies 3y ago
      Yeah a quick look on their (ZeroGPT) website and it seems like it's basically just a model itself trained on human vs. AI text? It caught what I tested with 100% accuracy but I didn't spend more than a few minutes playing with it.
- ljm 3y ago
  Honestly feel like the topic of AI has become massively over-saturated lately too. It's been getting an awful lot of interest and attention since ChatGPT, which is totally fair, but the hype is wearing thin. Amazon doesn't necessarily have an 'AI-generated books' problem, it has a quality control problem due to decisions it's made around managing inventory and acting as a distributor for third party merchants. That quality control problem affects almost everything Amazon sells on a marketplace that has steadily enshittificated itself over the past several years, and mass-producing zero-effort ebooks has been going on ever since you could self-publish there.