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I bumped into this at work but not in the way you might expect. My colleague and I were under some pressure to show progress and decided to rush merging a pret

I bumped into this at work but not in the way you might expect. My colleague and I were under some pressure to show progress and decided to rush merging a pretty significant refactor I'd been working on. It was a draft PR but we merged it for momentum's sake. The next week some bugs popped up in an untested area of the code. As we were debugging, my colleague revealed his assumption that I'd used AI to write it, and expressed frustration at trying to understand something AI generated after the fact. But I hadn't used AI for this. Sure, yes I do use AI to write code. But this code I'd written by hand and with careful deliberate thought to the overall design. The bugs didn't stem from some fundamental flaw in the refactor, they were little oversights in adjusting existing code to a modified API. This actually ended up being a trust building experience over all because my colleague and I got to talk about the tension explicitly. It ended up being a pretty gentle encounter with the power of what's happening right now. In hindsight I'm glad it worked out this way, I could imagine in a different work environment, something like this could have been more messy. Be careful out there.

kldg 1y ago
It can be a pretty a serious and offensive accusation for sure. When a dev voices their own characters in a game and has a flat affect and/or stilted speech pattern, it's inevitable to be called AI by someone. Art I don't understand or appreciate? Likely AI. Unimpressed by a Eurovision entry? Call it AI. Some people toss this around casually, but I wouldn't. I made myself known to be a big fool ~4 years ago. A local newspaper published an article on a particular person with outrageous claims primarily using photographs as proof. I challenged the editor directly via email, laying out my reasoning for why I was sure the images were manipulated. My arguments relied on misunderstandings on my part and the person claims were levied against showing zero deviation in position and stance while posing with multiple people during a meet-and-greet. The editor was offended and trolled me in response. I didn't let up, and he realized I was an idiot, not an agitator, and shared the full unpublished video from where the photos were taken with me, at which point I apologized deeply and made a donation. My ego was appropriately small for the following year. Before emailing him, I shared the photos with some level-headed friends for their opinion, specifically because I didn't want to make a false accusation. They came to the same conclusion that the images were most likely manipulated, so I was very confident going in. Now I trust this paper and people involved implicitly, but this was a lot of work to convince just one person.

kldg 1y ago

It can be a pretty a serious and offensive accusation for sure. When a dev voices their own characters in a game and has a flat affect and/or stilted speech pattern, it's inevitable to be called AI by someone. Art I don't understand or appreciate? Likely AI. Unimpressed by a Eurovision entry? Call it AI. Some people toss this around casually, but I wouldn't. I made myself known to be a big fool ~4 years ago. A local newspaper published an article on a particular person with outrageous claims primarily using photographs as proof. I challenged the editor directly via email, laying out my reasoning for why I was sure the images were manipulated. My arguments relied on misunderstandings on my part and the person claims were levied against showing zero deviation in position and stance while posing with multiple people during a meet-and-greet. The editor was offended and trolled me in response. I didn't let up, and he realized I was an idiot, not an agitator, and shared the full unpublished video from where the photos were taken with me, at which point I apologized deeply and made a donation. My ego was appropriately small for the following year. Before emailing him, I shared the photos with some level-headed friends for their opinion, specifically because I didn't want to make a false accusation. They came to the same conclusion that the images were most likely manipulated, so I was very confident going in. Now I trust this paper and people involved implicitly, but this was a lot of work to convince just one person.