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jmugan ◴[] No.41897583[source]
My daughter was accused of turning in an essay written by AI because the school software at her online school said so. Her mom watched her write the essay. I thought it was common knowledge that it was impossible to tell whether text was generated by AI. Evidently, the software vendors are either ignorant or are lying, and school administrators are believing them.
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1. TuringNYC ◴[] No.41905013[source]
>> Evidently, the software vendors are either ignorant or are lying, and school administrators are believing them.

This is what will eventually happen. Some component or provider deep in the stack will provide some answer and organizations will be sufficiently shrouded from hard decisions and be able to easily point to "the system."

This happens all the time in the US. Addresses are changed randomly because some address verification system feedback was accepted w/o account owner approval -- call customer service and they say "the system said that your address isnt right", as if the system knows where i've been living for the past 5yrs better than me, better than the DMV, better than the deed on my house. If the error rate is low enough, people just accept it in the US.

Then, it gets worse. Perhaps the error rate isnt low, just that it is high for a sub-group. Then you get to see how you rank in society. Ask brown people in 2003-2006 how fun it was to fly. If you have the wrong last name and zipcode combo in NYC suddenly you arent allowed to rent citibikes despite it operating on public land.

The same will happen with this, unless there is some massive ACLU lawsuit which exposes and the damages will continue until there is a resolution. Quite possibly subtle features on language style will get used as triggers, probably unknowingly. People in the "in-group" who arent exposed will claim it is a fair system while others will be forced to defend themselves and have to provide the burden of proof on a blackbox.