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AI fiction idiosyncrasies detection paper

AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds

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Olivia Guest 404 Media Chris Brockett Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. Ali Alkhatib Pavel By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.”

“this is interesting but i'm reluctant to get very attached to these analytical methods. a lot of computing researchers live for puzzles; if you tell them LLM outputs are identifiable by certain rhetorical cliches or structural tendencies, they'll work the p…”

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Ali Alkhatib: this is interesting but i'm reluctant to get very attached to these analytical methods. a lot of computing researchers live for puzzles; if you tell them LLM outputs are identifiable by certain rhe…
Ali Alkhatib: this is sort of a fundamental problem with pangram IMHO. if you restrict yourself from thinking critically about the author(s) as such and only look at syntax, you paint yourself very narrowly into…
Hypervisible : Even if it’s “good” by some metric, I don’t want to read it because it has no perspective or viewpoint.
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Brown professor class AI cheating

Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat

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Casey Fiesler Jason Koebler Rafael Pinto Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dare Obasanjo Stephen Turner Jeffrey Vagle By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But I think the real story here is not *that* students use AI, i…”

“this rules www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...”

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Casey Fiesler: Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But …
Casey Fiesler: This data is absolutely wild. The mean midterm score was 96, and the mean final score was 48. The *mode* midterm score was 100. The professor says that he intentionally made the midterm harder, and…
Casey Fiesler: Brown University also just released a report on gen AI based in part on a survey of students. provost.brown.edu/sites/defaul... 88% of undergrads indicated concerns about the impact of gen AI use o…
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human-in-loop fatigue essay

The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired

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Cat Hicks Gilles Louppe By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) esb.lol

“I think what's sort of funny about this stuff is how everyone writes about software & dopamine & AI writes "I have discovered a thing" when it is extremely recycling so like this piece I saw going around: pydantic.dev/articles/the... (lol @ "That loss is re…”

“Hey look at this * Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw... * The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired pydantic.dev/articles/the... * HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs arstechnica.com/gadget…”

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Cat Hicks: I just think Dopamine Nation isn't a good basis for a theory of all complex behavior at scale
Cat Hicks: What a coincidence that a massively viral book pushing a single puritanical message about "rewards" perfectly coincided with everybody online explaining that the answer to everything is a "dopamine…
Cat Hicks: Feeling left out, told it's passé
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Ed Zitron By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I’m joined by Ed Elson of Prof G Markets to talk about the broken state of the stock market, the collapse of regulation, SpaceX’s post-IPO horror show, and how our culture conflates wealth with intelligence. youtu.be/XkDEU…”

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Ed Zitron: Had @author-calnewport.bsky.social on Better Offline to talk about AI companies “doom-trolling” consumers using scary stories about conscious computers, and how we need to make fun of those leading…
Ed Zitron: Cal is a legend
Ed Zitron: ya several times
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