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OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work

• skilled 3y ago
  Previous discussion on this article, OpenAI admits that AI writing detectors don’t work (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37435564 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37435564) (17 points | 4 days ago | 6 comments) And a relevant discussion from a while ago, OpenAI shuts down its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862850) (503 points | 2 months ago | 283 comments)
• fooker 3y ago
  This, in my mind, is a good indication that we are on track to AGI. I have no idea about the timeline though.
  • tavavex 3y ago
    Why? In my mind, AGI could be an entirely different field - we don't really know much about it yet.
• iinnPP 3y ago
  I'm shocked the idea was ever humoured at all. How many collective hours have been wasted on this idea? What is wrong? Seriously.
  • nh23423fefe 3y ago
    Its important to prevent children from cheating on meaningless essays, dontchaknow
    • rwhyan 3y ago
      True but not all academic essays are meaningless (a lot are). College admissions essays for instance play a significant role in admissions at top schools.
      • frumper 3y ago
        Maybe they shouldn't? What was ever to stop someone else from writing one for you?
• solsane 3y ago
  Yeah, if there’s a way to discriminate AI from human writing that could also be used to train a better AI and become indistinguishable again.