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It's an Official AI Detector from The Company That Does AI, so it's going to be treated as completely authoritative. Humans will interpret probabilistic measure
by amenhotep 3y ago
It's an Official AI Detector from The Company That Does AI, so it's going to be treated as completely authoritative. Humans will interpret probabilistic measurements like "this was likely written by" or even "there is an 86% chance this was written by" as meaning "this definitely, factually, without a shadow of a doubt was written by AI". And there are many circumstances where being adjudged to have written something with AI will have serious consequences for the accused.
That tool had to be almost perfect, if not actually perfect, to exist. And it decidedly was not. I think the AI safety people are somewhat contemptuous but this is not the tree to be barking up imo.
- benreesman 3y agoThe make a little red light go on by having the API be: is this spanmy looking enough to tell people to read carefully and check citations. And just say nothing the rest of the time. That light is a game changer at “sure enough to warn” if it comes on the 5% of the time that it’s sure. Besides, other people are offering this or will soon, so they have an obligation to push the performance via competition. And who put them in charge of trying to set society’s policies on this: it’s the wildest overreach by far in an industry known for wild unilateral overreach.