You might be surprised…or you might not. I’ve found it’s a good barometer for whether you actually don’t like AI writing or you just don’t like bad AI writing.
2. Picked the human 5 out of 5. Since it's pointless to take as a judge of preference due to 1), I took it as a test of "spot the AI", and clearly it was obvious to me in every instance.
3. Of course we just "don't like bad AI writing". "Good AI writing" would be unnoticeable. This is incredibly rare in the domain we're talking about.
It does not surprise me in the least that a machine can produce excellent small quotes. Markov chains have been production some fantastic stuff for decades, for example, and they're about as complicated as an abacus. https://thedoomthatcametopuppet.tumblr.com/
On one side, I think this suffers a lot from selection bias: short AI snippets specifically chosen by humans for their quality and they do not necessarily reflect the average experience of AI text. On the other hand, AI generated text does not preclude human editing.
Question 1 had such different styles. I preferred the style the AI was using, but that was purely a stylistic preference.
Question 3 was a toss-up. They both felt fine, and funny enough they both had a "not just X, it's Y" pattern.
Those were the only two where I clicked the AI version - for the other three, it was obvious which was AI.
Music is another great example of this. I enjoy techno/trance type stuff, but YouTube is becoming borderline unusable for this genre due to AI slop. You'd think AI would do a good job of producing tracks here since this genre is certainly somewhat formulaic. And about 2 minutes into a lengthy track I'd probably do relatively mediocrely at determining whether it was human or AI, but by about 10 minutes into a track it's often painfully obvious. I run this experiment regularly as I find myself having to skip the AI slop which YouTube seems obsessed with recommending anyhow.
Ironically AI is probably providing a boon to human DJs here, because actively seeking them out it is one of the only ways to escape YouTube's sloparithm.
I successfully chose the least democratically awful slop if that's an indication of anything.
I noticed something-humans will use words precisely and loosely at the same time. AI will seem like it’s precise but a lot of the wording it uses can be cut or replaced by something else without losing much meaning.
If you're going off the use of emdashes and endashes, I've been using them for over 25 years.
> actually “owning” a language
> I found my answer in the one thing I had loved for over a decade
> Following is a detailed, step-by-step breakdown of how I did just that
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
It "degrades discussion" in exactly the same fashion.