Uses Ai to detect the use of Ai
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2026
1263 points (99.5% liked)
Microblog Memes
12112 readers
2653 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
RELATED COMMUNITIES:
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
AI is like: "i made this"
Shouldn't it be easy with today's computing power to simply search all content first for a match to known sources?
That would make sense if you wanted to do what was best for the user rather than push the Chosen Product.
Wouldn't necessarily tell you if that known source is AI. So now we have to go through everything by hand anyway.
Of course it can, if it's from 1859 the chances of it being AI are .... I leave that as an exercise for the reader.
And how do you know the source for your "hit" isn't lying? You are not describing a trivially easy problem at all.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Before anyone goes on a wild goose chase, this excerpt is on the opening of Chapter 4 instead of 5 in the first edition.
Anyone surprised to find that public domain art is determined to be AI generated does not realize that feeding an LLM requires a lot of art, and public domain is the easiest one to come across. AI detectors, as far as I know, check AI signs, and (most) AI signs came from their use by public domain artworks.
Anyone surprised to find that public domain art is determined to be AI generated does not realize that feeding an LLM requires a lot of art, and public domain is the easiest one to come across.
Yeah no we definitely realize that.
Wouldn't that mean that it should be better at identifying public domain work?
Only if they cared.
Go tell the AI detectors....
So, all the AI bullshit floating around, along with the requisite tech bros owners, is beneficial to society as a whole because they steal art that was no longer protected by copyright? My first question is always "If it all went away would anything change?".
I did not claim at any point that AI was beneficial to society. I just indicated that AI was trained on public domain artwork
load more comments
(1 replies)
I postulated exactly these issues with detecting LLM code in software projects, making "no LLM code"-type policies unenforceable. It doesn't work most of the time now, and it will only get worse in the future.
If nothing else, banning AI code forces them to hide it. Which is itself in some ways an advantage.
Does it think it's AI because it was trained on it so it recognizes it as being part of AI now?
load more comments
(33 replies)
Shit like this happens if you train your AI on every god damn fucking text on earth.
I made a machine with the purpose of literally creating output that plausibly sounds like a human wrote it.
Now that it creates things that sound plausibly like they came from a real person it's a problem. Now quick make something else that pretends to know it's not human when the whole point of the damn machine is to sound human.
Tjciiktn it's ridiculous. HMsie?$+'izhav!&(:8_! This world is so fucked
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, I don't know why she swallowed a fly – perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her; She swallowed the spider to catch the fly; I don't know why she swallowed a fly – perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird; How absurd to swallow a bird! She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her, She swallowed the spider to catch the fly; I don't know why she swallowed a fly – perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat; Well, fancy that, she swallowed a cat! She swallowed the cat to catch the bird, She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her, She swallowed the spider to catch the fly; I don't know why she swallowed a fly – perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady that swallowed a dog; What a hog to swallow a dog! She swallowed the dog to catch the cat, She swallowed the cat to catch the bird, She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her, She swallowed the spider to catch the fly; I don't know why she swallowed a fly – perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a goat; Just opened her throat and swallowed a goat! She swallowed the goat to catch the dog, She swallowed the dog to catch the cat, She swallowed the cat to catch the bird, She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her, She swallowed the spider to catch the fly; I don't know why she swallowed a fly – perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cow; I don't know how she swallowed a cow! She swallowed the cow to catch the goat, She swallowed the goat to catch the dog, She swallowed the dog to catch the cat, She swallowed the cat to catch the bird, She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her, She swallowed the spider to catch the fly; I don't know why she swallowed a fly – perhaps she'll die!
Intelligence is knowing that Frankenstein is the doctor. Wisdom is knowing that Shelley vibe coded the entire story.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Those detector sites are really evil. They simply do not work. They can't work. But they are advertising and people are using them to "check" texts. Which then totally fucks students when their idiotic teacher uses such a site and accuses them of using AI tools.
I was having a conversation with someone here who claimed to be a professor (I believe it) and went on and on about how they are a subject matter expert and that AI detection actually works really well these days. I told him I felt bad for his students and he had a full blown insult laden meltdown at me then deleted everything.
I just feel bad for those students.
load more comments
(3 replies)
I've been commenting on the open, public internet in some form or fashion since the 1900s. These models have been trained to sound like me, not the other way around. Fortunately, the bullies at the back of the class who don't pay attention have mostly caught on to this fact, after having it repeated to them hundreds of times. The other day I was thinking about it, and realized it's been a bit since anybody's accused me of using AI to write a comment. I think it's because I stopped proofreading what I write. Leave in those mistakes and the assholes at the back of the room who don't pay attention are too naive to think that machines can't make mistakes, I guess.
I realized my assignment went through an originality checker, which I guess is safer than calling it a plagiarism checker.
Still felt odd that it flagged a quote I used from the source book, in the section asking for a quotation. I would've thought it'd at least disregard things between quotation marks.
What's even dumber is that it flagged a single instance of the word "the", just the word not the sentence it was in. I don't know why, but I guess that specific "the" was unoriginal.
You copied it from here didn't you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The
Absolute disgusting levels of thievery
When I was in college all my papers were automatically submitted to TurnItIn when I uploaded them to the submission Dropbox. Every use of the singular word "the" was flagged as plagiarism. Every time.
Call me a dishonest copying cheater.
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(4 replies)
It's a 100% match on what the model was trained on.
We're using AI to determine what is AI, even though AI doesn't know what AI is.
Perfectly reasonable, no careers will be destroyed, surely
load more comments
(1 replies)
confidently incorrect
And this is the "unseen" loss of value. Can you imagine writing a book (by hand the old-fashioned way -- maybe with just a text editor) and submitting it to publish and the publisher rejects it as "written by AI?"
load more comments
(1 replies)
view more: next ›