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Tim Gullett's avatar

Wish I could leave an extra ‘like’ for the Doc Smith mention.

Eric's avatar

I can’t help myself man …. I love Doc Smith!

Martin Hackworth's avatar

Interesting. I just ran a few of my recent columns through Quillbot AI detector and got 0% AI detection throughout. I guess that I disagree a bit with your basic premise. AI is fairly easy to spot if you know what to look for - perfect grammar and sentence structure that appears to be the work of of a brainy 6 year old.

Cheers!

M

Eric's avatar

I did not try Quillbot. I tried Grammarly, ZeroGPT, and TextGuardAI. And that result is absolutely from a completely human generated article. I wrote it a few years ago. Just to see, I ran the exact same text through Quillbot and got a 0% score. That’s interesting.

I was really annoyed by the guy that insisted for 2000 words he could detect AI, but never gave specifics at all. And went on to say that the AI detectors will always detect it, too. Like I noted, em dashes are a dead giveaway. And it is because the human eye is part of the writing, editing, and reading experience. Which generative AI just can’t do.

I really wish I had some of my 1980’s high school essays. I bet they flag AI detectors like crazy.

Martin Hackworth's avatar

Agree. Most people ranting about AI can't write or read themselves. It's an interesting conundrum.

Quillbot is pretty good. I use it as my copy editor with suggestions turned off.

AI is more difficult to spot in music, but that's because most modern music is shit anyway. Camouflage!

Cheers

Eric's avatar

If you know of modern music that isn't shit ....