Back in 2023, the award judge whose praise is quoted by Harper's Bazaar ("evokes with precision and power two parallel worlds") "had a strong premonition that the world was about to change in ways I wasn’t ready for" regarding AI... lithub.com/the-sound-of...
See the mentions of RetractionBot and LibKey Nomad in the linked article.
The paper already discussed "automated tools like RetractionBot [that] are designed to flag retracted papers on Wikipedia by adding annotations primarily to the reference section" but criticized that as insufficiently visible.
Or the example in "Toxoplasma of Rage", with similar downsides:
"PETA can get everyone to pay attention to factory farming, but a lot of people who would otherwise oppose it will switch to supporting it just because they’re so mad at the way it’s being publicized."
slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/t...
Quite like the PETA example from
slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/t...
Thanks for clarifying. One should be aware that many readers are likely to interpret a social media post or headline of the form "Buzzy company X claims A. I found B" as implying that A is contradicted by B.
Are you asserting that your finding invalidates Pangram's 99.98% accuracy claim, or merely that you found a clever way to generate text that falls into the 0.02%?
Btw Spero himself already pointed out publicly that with some skill one can quickly generate false *positives* too x.com/max_spero_/s...
Wait, so DP did actually cause a political bias (just pro-red one)?
Bay Area folks interested in AI & Wikipedia:
You're welcome to attend our community meetup this Thursday in SF (near 24th St BART) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:B...
Program: A few AI-themed short presentations, some hacking, and socializing
Duolingo's owl, or the sophons?
Sounds like they could improve accuracy by only hiring jockeys (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jockey )