How AI Is Creeping Into The New York Times |Artificial intelligence seems to be turning up, undisclosed, in the opinion pages of major news publications.

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• Nima@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  the headline is scary, but the article is scarier, honestly.

  “I learned about the incident from Chakrabarty, a computer-science professor at Stony Brook University. I’d previously written about his efforts to quantify the proliferation of AI in novels self-published on Amazon. After commenting on Tuch’s post, he plugged the whole column into the Pangram AI detector. The program estimated that more than 60 percent of it was AI-generated. I ran the column through four other AI-detection tools: Two of them flagged 30 percent of the work as likely AI-generated, one found no AI, and one suspected AI but offered no percentage.”

  i think 30% is almost scarier than the 60 or the potential of a 100% article. that someone would rely on it and disperse it into their own work means more people get used to reading it and it being a part of their every day reading.

  unknowingly consuming partial slop sucks.

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    These tools are notoriously bad at determining what is AI generated. Hell, just look at that spread; anywhere between 0% and 60% depending on the tool you use. How is that at all useful information?

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