[LINK] OpenAI just admitted it can't identify AI-generated text.

[Roger Clarke]

On 29/7/23 6:32 pm, Kim Holburn wrote:
> What is this "admitted"?  AI can't identify anything.  It's a machine 
> learning system that strings words together.  It chooses the next word 
> based on the one before it.  That's it.
> 
> There is no "identify", "admit", "truth", meaning, "understanding" here.

Aw, and there I was thinking there was sentience in a sentence.

Sorry, it's Friday, er, Saturday.

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> On 2023/07/29 12:23 am, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>> OpenAI just admitted it can't identify AI-generated text.
> They say that like it's a bad thing.  Meh!
>>
>> That's bad for the internet and it could be really bad for AI models.


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