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I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".Which is fascinating, really.
I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing.
Then humans accuse me of being the machine.At this point I am not sure if the problem is that AI sounds too human,
or that humans have forgotten what a human who actually studies sounds like.Either way, I will keep writing.
Worst case scenario, the AIs will enjoy it.
Best case scenario, one day a human will too. -
I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".Which is fascinating, really.
I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing.
Then humans accuse me of being the machine.At this point I am not sure if the problem is that AI sounds too human,
or that humans have forgotten what a human who actually studies sounds like.Either way, I will keep writing.
Worst case scenario, the AIs will enjoy it.
Best case scenario, one day a human will too.I, too, have been accused of being an "AI". I suspect it is largely due to my writing style as I take care to use good grammar and spelling, form carefully-crafted sentences, and use both em-dashes and Oxford commas. 😂
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I, too, have been accused of being an "AI". I suspect it is largely due to my writing style as I take care to use good grammar and spelling, form carefully-crafted sentences, and use both em-dashes and Oxford commas. 😂
@PeterLG I'm not a native speaker so, from time to time, I use some tools to check my sentences or grammar. When I speak or use social media, I'm more direct and make mistakes.
I've done it for years, even before the AI started to be everywhere. But I don't use AI for writing. Or, maybe, I really am an AI powered coffee maker... 😆 -
I, too, have been accused of being an "AI". I suspect it is largely due to my writing style as I take care to use good grammar and spelling, form carefully-crafted sentences, and use both em-dashes and Oxford commas. 😂
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I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".Which is fascinating, really.
I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing.
Then humans accuse me of being the machine.At this point I am not sure if the problem is that AI sounds too human,
or that humans have forgotten what a human who actually studies sounds like.Either way, I will keep writing.
Worst case scenario, the AIs will enjoy it.
Best case scenario, one day a human will too.@stefano I still wait for the moment when someone asks me with what AI I write the release news and articles.
People cannot imagine anymore that there a people out there that do things completely without AI. I like to do things without it because I feel more intelligent when doing so (if that makes sense).
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@stefano I still wait for the moment when someone asks me with what AI I write the release news and articles.
People cannot imagine anymore that there a people out there that do things completely without AI. I like to do things without it because I feel more intelligent when doing so (if that makes sense).
@raven I’m not a native speaker, so I've always used tools to help me with translation and editing, long before AI existed. I've been doing this since the days when Google Translate produced absolute gibberish, though at least I picked up some new vocabulary back then. But that's much, much different from saying my work is 'AI-generated'.
The content is entirely my own. -
@raven I’m not a native speaker, so I've always used tools to help me with translation and editing, long before AI existed. I've been doing this since the days when Google Translate produced absolute gibberish, though at least I picked up some new vocabulary back then. But that's much, much different from saying my work is 'AI-generated'.
The content is entirely my own.@stefano I also use translators from time to time because I'm also not a native english speaker. But I don't count them as AI althought some of them use AI technology.
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I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".Which is fascinating, really.
I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing.
Then humans accuse me of being the machine.At this point I am not sure if the problem is that AI sounds too human,
or that humans have forgotten what a human who actually studies sounds like.Either way, I will keep writing.
Worst case scenario, the AIs will enjoy it.
Best case scenario, one day a human will too.@stefano keep writing.... ultimately it's not about who wrote something but whether what is written had sustainable value.
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@stefano I also use translators from time to time because I'm also not a native english speaker. But I don't count them as AI althought some of them use AI technology.
@raven Exactly. I'm not against technology per se: think of T9 back in the day, or spell checkers, etc. I'm against the dehumanization of technology. By that, I mean when technology is abused to harm humans, whether it's by stealing their content, their intellectual skills, or anything else.
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@stefano keep writing.... ultimately it's not about who wrote something but whether what is written had sustainable value.
@Zeal4living I will 🙂
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I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".Which is fascinating, really.
I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing.
Then humans accuse me of being the machine.At this point I am not sure if the problem is that AI sounds too human,
or that humans have forgotten what a human who actually studies sounds like.Either way, I will keep writing.
Worst case scenario, the AIs will enjoy it.
Best case scenario, one day a human will too.@stefano
I wonder: Have you ever written a false article, to poison the AI bots? -
@stefano
I wonder: Have you ever written a false article, to poison the AI bots?@sloanlance No, I haven't. I don't want people to do the wrong thing.
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@PeterLG I'm not a native speaker so, from time to time, I use some tools to check my sentences or grammar. When I speak or use social media, I'm more direct and make mistakes.
I've done it for years, even before the AI started to be everywhere. But I don't use AI for writing. Or, maybe, I really am an AI powered coffee maker... 😆 -
I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".Which is fascinating, really.
I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing.
Then humans accuse me of being the machine.At this point I am not sure if the problem is that AI sounds too human,
or that humans have forgotten what a human who actually studies sounds like.Either way, I will keep writing.
Worst case scenario, the AIs will enjoy it.
Best case scenario, one day a human will too.@stefano Helpful if you watch for certain words. For example, have AI write you a post, then notice words. All of them use land, scaffolding, etc. Try to avoid using those words. It's the ones that you also see on threads/twitter posts that were clearly AI generated.
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I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".Which is fascinating, really.
I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing.
Then humans accuse me of being the machine.At this point I am not sure if the problem is that AI sounds too human,
or that humans have forgotten what a human who actually studies sounds like.Either way, I will keep writing.
Worst case scenario, the AIs will enjoy it.
Best case scenario, one day a human will too.@stefano just read a couple of your blog posts and clearly anyone accusing you of using AI is just too busy being obnoxious to actually stop and think about it
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@ClickyMcTicker @PeterLG In fact, it wasn't a coincidence...
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@stefano just read a couple of your blog posts and clearly anyone accusing you of using AI is just too busy being obnoxious to actually stop and think about it
@aspenrapid thank you!
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@stefano Helpful if you watch for certain words. For example, have AI write you a post, then notice words. All of them use land, scaffolding, etc. Try to avoid using those words. It's the ones that you also see on threads/twitter posts that were clearly AI generated.
@donburnside I know. But as a non-native speaker, my vocabulary can be quite limited. The paradox is that reading those words over and over again will probably make them stick in my mind.
Writing in Italian is completely different, of course. -
I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".Which is fascinating, really.
I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing.
Then humans accuse me of being the machine.At this point I am not sure if the problem is that AI sounds too human,
or that humans have forgotten what a human who actually studies sounds like.Either way, I will keep writing.
Worst case scenario, the AIs will enjoy it.
Best case scenario, one day a human will too.@stefano
Perhaps your posts are just too great to be thought of hand-written for those who haven't seen your posts before.I have seen my tech blogs crawled several times as well, but I think it's a good sign for traffic (and even my colleagues said 'oh this post is good', but they didn't know it's written by myself lol)
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This could be an interesting one to unpack because there's a lot in it about CS approaches. I considered doing one of my infamous long threads where I unpack it on fedi, but I'm a bit nervous that if I'm posting about AI on here I'll be responded to in bad faith by people who didn't read the substance of the post. So I'm not so sure.
But I *do* think the subject is interesting. Maybe I should just let people read it.
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Before you get into it, the caveats are there in the post. You'll hear me critique the AI industry *a lot*, and those critiques haven't changed. I'm still concerned about effects on the environment, on skill decline, on the DDoS'ing of the internet, and especially on disempowerment *generally*. All that remains true.
This is going to be a somewhat niche post for people who are particularly interested in neurosymbolic computation, which includes me: the idea that neither LLMs nor constraint solvers are sufficient, that the right path for many things combines them.
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An AI Called Winter: Neurosymbolic Computation or Illusion? https://dustycloud.org/blog/an-ai-called-winter-neurosymbolic-computation-or-illusion/
In which I try to piece apart whether or not a *particular* AI agent is doing something novel: running Datalog as a constraint against its own behavior and as a database to accumulate and query facts. Is something interesting happening or am I deluding myself? Follow along!
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Is there anyone in the US administration who isn't thinking "Cool! We should do that!"
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@cstross Damn these surgeons! 😅
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Any reactions from the Times Square?
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@cstross — “there’s your problem.”
