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iocase@lemmy.zip 2 days agoYeah I seem to be better than most here but I’ve noticed it too. Same with noticing AI writing, people seem to be awful at it.
It’s like a severe form of autism for autism. Double autism? Because a lot of my friends (and me) are on the spectrum and can detect AI writing or satire but Lemmy seems to be uniquely inept at it.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
How do you know how good you are at “noticing AI writing”? Do you have some way of verifying whether something was written by AI?
iocase@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I use AI roughly 6 hours a day or more and have probably read tens of thousands of replies from them, so I know exactly what it sounds like and what it’s voice looks like unless you prompt it heavily to avoid LLMisms. I’ve always scored extremely high on reading comprehension (which helps but isn’t predictive) and studies recently have found some people are uncannily good at detecting AI writing in double blind trials.
I’ve also called things out on AI and later on turned out to be right. It happens a lot… That’s why.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Ooo that’s a good one. If you changed the emdashes to periods or semicolons and did a little cleanup to the more stilted parts, I could see myself being convinced that’s human-made. I thiiiink I have a pretty good eye for recognizing LLM stuff. It’s REALLY obvious in review articles, and they’re insanely common now. They fill up the top slots of search engines.
I was looking for an article describing features of a device recently and I clicked on a good looking top-link. If you blur your eyes and look at how the text is formatted, you could already taste that it was LLM-generated. That wouldn’t even be a problem for me if the information contained within was good… It was explaining things like how to get OUT of modes without stating how to get INTO those modes to begin with, and a lot of the “opinions” were worded like they were straight out of press releases.
A page later in my search engine, I find an article with very similar information but within a few sentences, it’s extremely obvious a person with, like… passion? wrote it. I told my partner and, even being very literate and tech savvy, they guessed the wrong article as being LLM-generated.
I’m not the best at detecting LLM writing, but I do feel some folks just have a better sense for it than others.