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I thought of sharing some issues that preoccupy me here, because of how active piefed development is. Btw thank you all for your hard work!

I have noticed that more and more articles are created with LLMs without disclosing it. So, it seems to me that if someone wants to avoid posting this sort of content, one needs to at least:

  • check how many articles the author posts per day in the specific site,
  • then if the author really exist and
  • finally copy-paste part of the text in a couple of ai-detector sites.

Initially, I thought of making a post for a feature request like the one that detects AI generated images, but for text. But I can't because if I got this right, the ai-detectors may flag an article as ai generated when the author is not a native english speaker [1].

Of course the feature that allows us to label ai-generated content ourselves before posting it is very important. In a way my questions are related to something else: what to do before that. As briefly as I can, here they are:

  • does the process mentioned above seem adequate?
  • if yes, what else can someone do to check an article before posting, and are there any alternatives/variations to this process?
  • if no, what would you suggest?
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[-] CovertOperative@piefed.zip 3 points 15 hours ago

The only AI detection for text that supposedly works, and isn't public yet, is Anthropic's watermarking.

And even once it's public, it can only reliably say that a text has been created or heavily edited by Claude specifically. It can never rule out that it's been AI-generated in general.

Other AI companies might (be forced to) follow suit in the future; if so you could check them off one by one, but there will always be AI models that won't have watermarks. So even then only the most lazy slop-posters will be caught (granted, I still think that will help).

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 24 minutes ago

I'm still not sure if Anthropic or OpenAI are ever going to publish the watermarking. I'm not a lawyer and the legalese is complicated. But as far as I know they're trying to find ways to watermark it but not provide us with any proper way to make use of them.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of all the "circumventable" argument. I mean that's true, and I tend to read it a lot. But in my opinion even getting rid of the majority of the slop would be a great achievement, not matter if some remaining percentage of people are able to circumvent it.

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