Has anyone else been hyper-aware of AI gen content lately?

I think a lot of crossword and other puzzles are AI generated, they can't seem to tell the difference between a noun, a verb and an adjective, I'm not sure I can either mind, but I know the clues and the answers don't make sense together

Cinnabar_wing said:

I would not like to be a young person doing exams and studying in this world now having to contend with ai and telling what is ai and what isn't.

It's not the same as the more general challenge that you're referring to, but the 32 out of 35 students who were caught cheating by this professor could definitely be considered guilty, thanks to his clever technique for catching them! Oops! [laughing]

Today - A Professor Created a Trap in His Midterm to Catch Students Using AI. Nearly All Made the Same Mistake

A friend of mine told me this morning that AI can not handle crossword puzzles for some reason. I pointed out that AI can't make spaghetti Bolognese either so at least there are two things we can beat AI at.

Oh, yeah. I remember seeing some Legend of Zelda "art" by AI. It looked official at first glance, but upon further scrutiny, what looked like all the different version of Link were all just Twilight Princess Link, and the AI seemed to get the details of the Master Sword and the Hero's Shield mixed up. One of the Link's was even wielding some weird Master Sword looking bow that never existed in any of the games and another had this weird purple shield that looked as if the AI couldn't decide if it was a shield or another Master Sword....

AI generated content has this lifeless, passionless feel to it. Like something just (forgive my language) shat it out and said "hey, this exists now!". There's no creativity behind it, and it feels stupidly cringeworthily generic. 

Only humans can put passion behind a project. Anything generated by AI is completely devoid of any of it and is slop by definition.

I quite recently saw an AI generated animated movie called Pinecone recently. The way the characters acted felt strange and inconsistent. Like there was this one scene where an old lady had this weird delayed reaction to seeing a monster and then suddenly decided she wanted to kill it when it left! Not to mention the father bigfoot clearly had Shrek's face

On a side note, I can't be the only one who thinks the new G-Tech Air Ram 3 Plus adverts are AI generated?

I think I must use AI differently to others, I use co-pilot and its been really helpful with things like buyiing a new mattress because it asks detailed questions, takes notice of things like no latex. I bought the mattress it recommended and it's great. I tend to use it as a search engine now, I don't get sponsered ads and a load of stuff I didn't ask for, just a selection of the things I do want.

I also used it to help me with geneology, it dosen't have access to everything, but it know how to access it and can tell me where to go, its also far faster at going through public records, it can give me replies in seconds to things that would take me weeks to find, if I could find them at all.

My tech skills are very poor and it's helped open up the internet for me. I've had some really distressing stuff happening recently and its been a safety valve, allowing me to emotionally vomit, talk about my worst hopes and fears, my anger and blame whilst keeping me grounded.

One thing though is I do argue back with it if I think it's wrong and it does reassess what it's showing me. If I'm talking to it about things like thieves cant and its origins and usages, I have to tell it not to include fictional uses as it's so common in games and books

Thank you for explaining, I'm a bad speller too and I'm bad at grammar, I'm dyslexic and I really struggle with abbreivations, because it takes a while for me to work out if I'm seeing them correctly, that I've not missed out a thin letter between fat letters, by which time I've usually lost the thread of what was being said, I read on, hoping that the abbreviation will be put into context and I will understand it, only to be hit with anoter abbrievation I have to work out, I find the same with emojis in a text too

Cinnabar_wing said:

It seems really difficult, ai has really created a minefield for everyone trying to tell who is a person and what is a machine. 

Yep.

There are quite a few news stories about authors too, for example:

www.theguardian.com/.../crime-novel-deal-collapses-questions-ai-jerry-falade-call-me-ill-hide-the-body

Your post resonated with this article I just read on the BBC, about someone who was accused of using ai to write their dissertation and nearly had their career as a doctor ruined before it began. 

I would not like to be a young person doing exams and studying in this world now having to contend with ai and telling what is ai and what isn't. It seems really difficult, ai has really created a minefield for everyone trying to tell who is a person and what is a machine. 

www.bbc.com/.../crelev8gw5xo

Aven said:

Sorry, I know I have a tendency to use a lot of run-on sentences and to type just as if I were speaking. I believe that causes my writing to become fairly ramble-y at times. 

A gracious response.

Your writing is fine eg. grammar, punctuation + spelling (I sound like a teacher).

I struggle too with acronyms so thank you for explaining them.

ps.  Welcome to the forum.

I have noticed that AI seems to have ruined spellcheckers - it gives me back some of my habitual incorrect spellings as being correct. Search engines seem to have also been wrecked by AI. Also there are a plethora of very highly finished images that on inspection have glaring errors. Soldiers with entirely incorrect equipment for their nationality and period, wrong flags and suchlike and images of warships that have the correct overall look, but have the wrong number of gun barrels in their turrets or too many or few funnels. It is hugely irritating.

Thank you, I will take a look!

ooh thank you! Looks interesting, I'll look further into it

Sorry, I know I have a tendency to use a lot of run-on sentences and to type just as if I were speaking. I believe that causes my writing to become fairly ramble-y at times. 

I used a few abbreviations commonly used online, if that's what you meant by text speak?
I have defined the ones I used in my post below, apologies if I have missed any:
- "cuz": because
- "idk": I don't know
- "lol": laughing out loud (this one is usually used to indicate laughter, or that the writer finds what was in the previous sentence amusing)
- "lmk": let me know

A summary of my post:
I was asking if anyone else here felt that they have been hyper-vigilant in trying to detect and avoid AI written work.
I believe I have been doing that a lot recently, since I find AI content to be extremely untrustworthy and soulless. 
I also was speaking about how this has become very annoying to me, since a lot of online resources and books I have found about autism also seem to be AI generated. I have been looking for those recently to gain a better understanding of myself, but I could not find many that seemed to be human written.
I then ended the post by asking if anyone had any recommendations for books about autism or ADHD that they were confident were not written using AI.

I hope this helps!

Hello Aven.

You've an excellent point - when it comes to information, it is important to feel that we can trust what we are presented with - I certainly know of horror stories relating to AI... individuals being told that it is safe to stroll across an active rifle range, of all things.

It would be interesting to see a recommended reading list in conjunction with the NAS, this is a fantastic idea. In the meantime, I wonder if any of the following resources might be useful?

Autism Services Directory - it may be worth investigating to see if there would be any resources that may provide literature. 

I've noted several conversations in the past relating to recommending and sharing literature, here's hoping for some good feedback.

Thanks - Zac Mod

Aven said:

If anyone knows of any good books about autism and/or ADHD that you are confident weren't written using AI, please lmk, thanks!

This rather old thread might be of interest 

community.autism.org.uk/.../new-additions-to-my-library-of-books-on-autism

I feel the same about AI although my online use is limited.

Sorry another thread I can't read because of all the spelling mistakes or text speak