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is this just slander or are you basing this on something? I feel like the only way to make an AI slop universe worse is to accuse people of using AI when they'
by Quarrelsome 5mo ago
is this just slander or are you basing this on something?
I feel like the only way to make an AI slop universe worse is to accuse people of using AI when they're not. So I worry we might be doing that is all...
- bradrn 5mo agoI found this comment pretty convincing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247413 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247413
- Quarrelsome 5mo agomaybe but its not like people don't also do these things (erroneous sentences, weird fluff). I mean editors exist specifically to slap that shit out of writers. That said, it's mildly compelling. I just fear that our future is gonna be full of this and the idea of the false positive is so brutal that I'd rather give the benefit of the doubt.
- antihipocrat 5mo agoPerhaps we end up demanding no doubt. Human only community meet ups to discuss and share ideas, music and art. No recording allowed. The Internet becomes primarily a passive stream of information vetted by government and Mega Corps, just like the TVs of old. Except for the nifty buy with one click button of course
- lanyard-textile 5mo agoDigital artists are expected now to have at least some recorded timelines of their creations. It's easy to do with digital tools today, like Procreate, so it is increasingly suspicious not to have any.
- doright 5mo agoWe will rue the day that image generation evolves beyond diffusion and AI is able to use digital brushes and blending directly on a canvas.
- Quarrelsome 5mo agoyou could probably already fake that to some extent with the latest video models.
- ThrowawayR2 5mo agoThere have been mail spam, link farming, non-AI slop content sites, and other forms of scamming looking to take advantage of people on the Internet for something like a quarter century by now. Even HN's /new submissions queue is filled with such rubbish. There is zero reason to give any benefit of the doubt on the Internet for anything and there hasn't been for years, absolutely zero.
- Quarrelsome 5mo ago> There is zero reason to give any benefit of the doubt on the Internet for anything and there hasn't been for years, absolutely zero. I feel like that's just an argument for cruelty. The issue is that generative content makes it hard to tell and people confidently call borderline issues now, more than they used to.
- mapontosevenths 5mo agoThis was not AI, or at least was only proofread/edited by AI. More importantly, both of those sentences make complete sense in context, and neither is phrased in a way that AI would. They are phrased in the way that Terry Pratchet would have. Have you never read him? This new trend of pointing out that everything you dont understand is AI has become a flashing warning sign about our declining literacy rates. Literacy is in serious trouble, and worse it has effected the way humans THINK. We are all poorer for it. Read more books people!
- booleandilemma 5mo agoI've never read any of Pratchett's books. Why does he know more about furniture than most people?
- celsius1414 5mo agoThe first paragraph, and the one directly above the one about knowing more about furniture: > There is a theory, popular among certain very old and very tired philosophers, that all memories take up a kind of furniture in the head. The good ones are armchairs. The painful ones are filing cabinets, usually full. And then there are the memories that are neither: the ones that arrive uninvited, settle in, and start terrorising the other occupants by kicking over the chairs.
- booleandilemma 5mo agoYeah I read that. It doesn't mean he knows more about furniture than most. I agree with rogual, it looks nonsensical.
- Scarblac 5mo agoI interpreted as saying he knows a lot about different kinds of ideas / memories / things in the head.
- spacedcowboy 5mo ago
- deadbabe 5mo agoWhat does it matter? The AI slop universe is only going to grow worse no matter what we do. Accusing stuff you don’t like as being AI is just a thing you do, not an actual serious observation.
- Quarrelsome 5mo ago> What does it matter? cause false positives are brutal to the victim.
- mpalmer 5mo agoThe book has to be small enough to disappear when a teacher looks up. Pocket editions, as their name suggests, were engineered for this. Pratchett’s were small, fat, slightly battered, and printed on a kind of paper that already looked guilty. Pratchett's Pocket editions were slightly battered? Pre-sale, even? Not only does the paper "look guilty", but it's doing so "already"? As if guilty paper is normal, but not on THIS time scale. It's nonsensical; even bad writers don't end up with stuff like this.
- petesergeant 5mo agoPresumably the ones from the library, which the author mentions was his source? Every Pratchett book I read as a kid matched this description, including being battered.
- mpalmer 5mo agoTell me more about this already-guilty-looking paper, and how this kid was "sliding" an entire paperback book into a math textbook with "a centimetre to spare".
- petesergeant 5mo agoI think I could slide this into a maths text book? https://www.facebook.com/groups/2174439579599449/posts/2364623657247706/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2174439579599449/posts/23646...
- the_af 5mo agoYou wouldn't be able to open it and keep it open flat against the textbook though, not without the teacher noticing. It simply doesn't work, now that the author has acknowledged they used AI to spruce up their blog post, we can agree this part (hiding pocketbooks in open textbooks) was 100% slop.
- watwut 5mo agoI dont know what kind of pockets you have, but most Pratchetts book did not fit into mine. And yes there were whole series of books that fit. But, pratchetts ones did not.