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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How did they estimate whether an LLM was used to write the text or not? Did they do it by hand, or using a detector?

Since detectors are notorious for picking up ESL writers, or professionally written text as AI-Generated.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They developed their own detector described in another paper. Basically, this reverse-engineers texts based on their vocabulary to provide an estimate on how much of them were ChatGPT.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

They just asked a few people if they thought it was written by an LLM. /s

I mean, you can tell when something is written from ChatGPT, especially if the person isn't using it for editing, but is just asking it to write a complaint or request. It is likely they are only counting the most obvious, so the actual count is higher.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I don't know of any reason that the proportion of ESL writers would have started trending up in 2022.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If it's due to LLM is it "human written communication"?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Human-like written communication.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even if it was fully AI generated its still human communication in a written format, at least until the AIs start writing to each other without a human intermediary.

[–] sorghum 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I thought there was a social network that is completely filled with AI and no real humans.

Edit: found it https://socialai.co/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/17/24247253/social-ai-app-replace-humans-with-bots

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

is that seriously a website whose sole function is telling you to go to the app store?

[–] sorghum 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, which is why I included a news article to get a sense of what it is.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reddit had a subreddit dedicated to bots just posting to each other as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

/r/subreddit_simulator, IIRC

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I think that one used simple Markov chains and was really entertaining for years.

I also remember there was a bot you could summon that would simulate a comment written by you, and it was funny to see those.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Written communication of humans, not by humans

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is the top result on duck duck go for how tall does a soursop tree get:

https://livetoplant.com/soursop-plant-size-get-the-right-size-for-you/

Gee thanks, I'm cured.

Btw does any one know if Soursops have an aggressive root system?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I'm jealous you can grow soursop, those things are delicious!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

yeah, I've got around 40 trees I've planted in our yard. Thing was, when I bought this, it was labeled as a lychee. Then it started making soursop flowers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Wow, 40 trees! You must have a big property.

I live in the Pacific northwest, so no tropical fruit for me 😭 we've got good berries and stone fruit here, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It sounds like you can opt for a seedling sized plant and you'll be fine!

/s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Well if your books start talking back you should get help. The computer just started getting good (I remember Dr Sbaitso)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

That’s scary shit. Hopefully this can slow down some.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Who wants to be licked by an emo?

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[–] Gullible 5 points 1 day ago

Don’t worry, I see you

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