Yesterday, I interviewed a tech guy who told me something too important for me to wait until the podcast comes out for you to hear it:
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Yesterday, I interviewed a tech guy who told me something too important for me to wait until the podcast comes out for you to hear it:
Many free AI detectors have especially high false positive rates because they make money selling software that "humanizes" writing. 1/2
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Yesterday, I interviewed a tech guy who told me something too important for me to wait until the podcast comes out for you to hear it:
Many free AI detectors have especially high false positive rates because they make money selling software that "humanizes" writing. 1/2
They tell students papers sound like AI — even when they're the students' own writing — so the company can scare them and sell them a product.
This goes beyond the general problem that even good AI detectors aren't perfect and shouldn't be the sole reason to accuse someone of writing with AI.
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Yesterday, I interviewed a tech guy who told me something too important for me to wait until the podcast comes out for you to hear it:
Many free AI detectors have especially high false positive rates because they make money selling software that "humanizes" writing. 1/2
@grammargirl This timeline is just the worst.
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@grammargirl This timeline is just the worst.
@Meyerweb @grammargirl Eric, I keep seeing “this timeline is just the worst” being posted today and it’s always for completely unrelated reasons and what can I say except this timeline is just the worst?
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They tell students papers sound like AI — even when they're the students' own writing — so the company can scare them and sell them a product.
This goes beyond the general problem that even good AI detectors aren't perfect and shouldn't be the sole reason to accuse someone of writing with AI.
@grammargirl that is the new insult to people writing interesting opinions regarding an article on a site.
“I think this was written by AI”
Dumb down writing to be believable.
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They tell students papers sound like AI — even when they're the students' own writing — so the company can scare them and sell them a product.
This goes beyond the general problem that even good AI detectors aren't perfect and shouldn't be the sole reason to accuse someone of writing with AI.
@grammargirl
> Many free AI detectors have especially high false positive rates because they make money selling software that "humanizes" writingThis titbit convinced me to subscribe to your podcast. Just queued up the interview with Doug Harper of Etymonline for download next time I get a WiFi connection. Keep up the good work.
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@grammargirl This timeline is just the worst.
.@Meyerweb @grammargirl Took a while, but the proverbial penny finally droped, and I realized: Oh! He means “reality” (yeah, I strong agree) and not this mastodon thread.
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