It's really just that AI detectors are snake oil
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Your writing reflects a higher than normal degree of literacy. Ergo, AI use detected.
That, or my man really loves a bullet point and an emdash.
I love using emdashes in my papers, but I stopped because of AI
Don't let LLMs take your em dashes; flattening your language to the lowest common denominator to avoid doing anything too distinctive less you be accused of non-authorship.. that's a real harm to you and your reader. If you know how to use them, and enjoy using them, use them fearlessly.
It’s fine, I use em dashes all the time in papers. If you do it correctly—to add more information or commentary to your overall point—instead of at random and without proper syntax you’re not going to get accused.
I am in this picture and i dont like it
It’s actually the opposite. AI writing sounds like corpo-speak. It’s soulless, ugly, and extremely obvious.
I’ve spent about 30,000 hours reading in my life. If you think I can’t tell you’re using a token predictor for your “essay,” you’re kidding yourself.
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Might be doing a masters next year and god I hope that isnt a problem. Im sure it will be, but one can hope
Personally, if I had that shit pulled on me, I would probably demand to know their process of grading papers. Because from what I've been reading, a lot of teachers and lecturers are starting to use AI tools to assist them.
And as far as I'm concerned, if I have paid an absolute fucking fortune to be there and be taught by human beings, I'm expecting them to actually do their fucking jobs and not hand it off to Elon Musk's plagiarist CP machine. Especially if they're going to be going around accusing students of using AI.
My mother is a professor and hates AI. She works at a community college and the amount of shit she has to go through is unbelievable. Her college actively pushes her to use AI but she doesn't whenever possible. She's struggling with AI more than any other person I know of.
Teachers are rarely the problem.
I'm starting a master's in a few weeks, and because most of the courses involve group work, I'm concerned about someone in my group sinking a project for everyone else by using an LLM for their portion.
And given the program, I wouldn't be surprised if there are more than a few AI boosters in the courses who will try it, above the normal number of such people you might find in postgrad studies.
I never had a problem with ratings over 50%. My writing seems to be especially prone to false positives, but I still didn't receive higher than 20-30%. Unfortunately, at my school, anything over 0% was considered suspect, so I was still penalised even if it was clearly human-written with full APA sourcing.
I was worried about this as well, but I’m in undergrad and have run into zero issues. When teachers allow us to see the percentage similarity to AI text I’ve always had under 10%, usually under 5% if you omit direct quotations. I can’t imagine it gets more likely you’ll get dinged as your subject gets more arcane. The only time I’ve seen people in trouble for it are for really obvious plagiarism or AI use.
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I’ve gotten this a lot. I was also on early Reddit a lot so I guess AI probably just writes like I do, not the other way around
That's interesting. I was permabanned in the Inauguration Bloodbath after 12 years, and a million karma. I was VERY active, back when nobody had really heard of Reddit. Because my end was sudden, I never had the chance to delete anything, so they got it all.
Same boat
Oh my, that's certainly something that could have happened to me. When I deleted my account I nuked all of my posts and comments with overwriting though.
Seeing artists and animators who have been doing their thing long before AI getting demonitized or deleted with accusations of using AI to generate their work is really starting to piss me the fuck off.
At a art exhibit, this poor artist with over 20 years of work had to put a "Not AI" sticker. He was sick of all the dick heads.
Nobody who reads or writes for a living thinks AI slop sounds good. It has a hideous corpo-speak prosody that’s like nails on a chalkboard to professionals.
People think because they can’t tell it’s not written by a human, someone who has read literally tens of thousands of essays (not to mention millions of fucking book pages) can’t tell either.
Absolutely bonkers.
Students who use AI are like little kids standing on each others shoulders in a trench coat and trying to order alcohol.
The old witchcraft trial.
If the paper is so badly written that it fails then it will be declared AI-free. (If she drowns then she wasn't a witch)
Pry those em dashes from my cold, dead hands, Louise.
The clankers will never sway me from my em dashes, my oxford commas, and my semicolons; they are my precious.
There are ways of telling whether she is an AI.
What are AIs mode out of?
Silicon!
What else is made out of silicon?
Breast implants!
So logically if she weighs the same as a breast implant...
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It's like being accused of aimboting in a competitive shooter. I just take it as a compliment.
I joined a counterstrike server for newbs to practice with bots. Apparently people thought I was a bot because I sucked so badly.
Wallhacking by adding extra walls. Aimbotting to ensure a miss. I like it.
"I follow grammatical rules, yes"-ass rating.
Emagine being in an academic filed, and AI being trained off your research papers, so it has the same writing style as you. Give me my em dashes back.
She's possessed by a daemon!
Pretty sure that's also the 3rd American red scare we've got going on right now with the whole guilt by association, put antifa in prison for 580 years.
Can’t have you getting away without claiming any AI use or else the Jensen Wong bubble might pop even earlier.
It's like when I used to play Black ops and battlefield 3, eventually because it wad the summer after I graduated, I basically played all day.
Eventually I was getting accused of using hacks for about 25% of my games.
The kicker: I wasn't particularly good based on the scoreboard, but after you kill the same guy 3 times through a wall because you can hear his footsteps with your headset and just spray through the wall, he gets suspicious (and probably doesn't play nearly as much)
I actually was in the top 50 worldwide for MW3 for pistol kills for awhile because for about 2 months all I did in that game was dual wield pistols, sprint after people in games that are more close quarters and go to town on my triggers.
I always liked being accused of hacking, because it made me feel like I wasn't garbage at the games.
Now I'd probably get accused of being a default bot lmao
I used to be extremely careful about my grammar and spelling. I never wanted to be called out for using the wrong there or forgetting punctuation.
after Ai though, i really don't care. At least im less likely to be taken for a robot.
Excuse me it's I'M or I am, not im.
What are you, some kind of low ram ai model?
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Well, one thing corporate AI won't do is tell you to eat a bag of dicks.
Soon, being an asshole will be the tell, that you're talking to a meatbag online!
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