• MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    That isn’t really a rebuttal of my statement. It’s not even particularly salient. Sure your average person might like AI writing and not be able to tell it from human works — just like they can’t tell the authenticity of a photograph of Aunt Margaret from a photograph of Trump meeting an alien from Rigel IV. But there are plenty of people who can, and so anyone trying to pass slop off as their original work will be discovered. It’s just a matter of time.

    That being said, I use AI quite a bit in writing stories — though it’s more like solo roleplaying. I don’t think it’s particularly good at all, but it does while away the hours sometimes, as long as your expectations are low. I can’t see anyone who enjoys reading being enamored with AI. My wife reads over 300 books per year, and she spots it pretty easily.

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      5 hours ago

      there are plenty of people who can

      Do you have any scientific evidence to support this claim?

      I don’t think it’s particularly good at all, but it does while away the hours sometimes

      What model are you using?

      I can’t see anyone who enjoys reading being enamored with AI.

      Bold claim from someone who spends hours writing AI stories for themself. Then again, I guess I am assuming you consider yourself a person who enjoys reading.

      My wife reads over 300 books per year, and she spots it pretty easily.

      That’s over 5 books a week. I find if difficult to believe she’d notice if you slipped a book she read in January book into the list for this month, let alone an AI generated story. Still, that’s an impressive amount of books. My wife reads about 100 a year, but they’re almost all in her favorite genre, crime drama, and I am completely certain I could get a decent AI model to output a full length book in that genre and she wouldn’t notice. I’m not sure quantity of books read in a time frame really tells us much, either way, about the ability to detect AI generated writing.