alt Hacker NewsThe detectors aren’t great but they aren’t really the issue. The fact that LLMs make it so easy to impersonate human communication is precisely the problem here. There cannot be a reliable way to identify if something is from a human or not. And the ease of access and low price makes using LLM generated content a no brainer, you have to actively go out of your way to produce human generated content.
We are building a future where human contact will be scarce
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> We are building a future where human contact will be scarce
Yes, until you remember there is a world outside of the screen, where people build things with their hands, use their physically to play instruments for others, paint beautiful things for others to see physically and so much more.
"Humanness" online been dead for decades already, if you want humanness you need to step outside, or at least invite other humans home.
Currently the way I detect AI when I read something is that I start to notice a fuzzy confused behind my eyeballs, or The words and concepts seem unusually disconnected and meaningless in a hard-to-describe way. Then I squint a little harder and realize that I was got tricked into reading slop. Weirdly, I also notice this quality in code, even really good AI code that apparently works.