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Channel9877 commented on The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit   aftermath.site/the-intern... · Posted by u/thinkingemote
peppermint_gum · 2 years ago
One aspect of the spread of LLMs is that we have lost a useful heuristic. Poor spelling and grammar used to be a signal used to quickly filter out worthless posts.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work at all for AI-generated garbage. Its command of the language is perfect - in fact, it's much better than that of most human beings. Anyone can instantly generate superficially coherent posts. You no longer have to hire a copywriter, as many SEO spammers used to do.

curl's struggle with bogus AI-generated bug reports is a good example of the problems this causes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38845878

This is only the beginning, it will get much worse. At some point it may become impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Channel9877 · 2 years ago
Interesting point about the spelling and grammar. I wonder if that could be used as a method of proving you are a human..

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