AI assisted posts..

[TheVat]

Could one of you guys who likes to pretend that your AI cut-and-pasted text is actually stuff you came up with on your own please tell me why you think your behaviour is a valuable use of your time?

Now watch, someone will cut/paste AI text in order to answer your question. Young people, even students at prestige universities, are outsourcing their brains.

 

[geordief]

Now watch, someone will cut/paste AI text in order to answer your question. Young people, even students at prestige universities, are outsourcing their brains.

I wonder if people who use ai for copy end up being unable to write anything that does not sound ai as well?

(I ran my question through google and it seems the answer may be "yes")

Google Search

 

[DaveC426913]

I can foresee the (present?) time where ,in a social context(irl) people go around with personal ai prompters so that you might not know if you are talking to a real person or a ventriloquist's dummy(at first)

There is a commercial for a dating app that has exactly this premise.

Pretty woman and slob of a man are at a restaurant.
She: "So I hear you like hockey?"
He: : looks nervous :
: picks up toaster from floor :
: writes on card :
: sticks card in toaster and pushes lever :
: waits awkwardly :
: toaster pops :
: grabs card and reads :
"Yes! Hockey!"
"Name your favourite team."
"Do you watch?"

 

[exchemist]

It's not even so much the presenting it, that annoys me. It's the regular failure of people to tell us that the text they are posting is AI generated.

I don't understand the urge that some people apparently have to be the man in the middle for a conversation between an AI and the members of sciforums. If all you're doing is providing AI with cut-and-pasted posts from here and then cutting and pasting the AI's responses back to here, then what's in it for you?

I don't get it.

Could one of you guys who likes to pretend that your AI cut-and-pasted text is actually stuff you came up with on your own please tell me why you think your behaviour is a valuable use of your time?

This is like asking why Trump cheats at golf.

 

[geordief]

There is a commercial for a dating app that has exactly this premise.

Pretty woman and slob of a man are at a restaurant.
She: "So I hear you like hockey?"
He: : looks nervous :
: picks up toaster from floor :
: writes on card :
: sticks card in toaster and pushes lever :
: waits awkwardly :
: toaster pops :
: grabs card and reads :
"Yes! Hockey!"
"Name your favourite team."
"Do you watch?"

Might be money in portable bs detectors too.

 

[James R]

This is like asking why Trump cheats at golf.

Actually, I think the answer is the same for both.

Trump cheats at golf because he can't bear to face the reality that he isn't as good at golf as he would like to be, and because his ego suffers a blow every time he realises that other people (including some of the people he plays golf with) are better golfers than he is. Since the thing he despises more than just about anything else in the world is reality getting in the way of his ego, and being aware that his ego and reality can't co-exist in the same room, the conclusion he reaches is that reality has to give way to ego.

He also holds the belief - and has no doubt learned from experience - that you can fool a lot of people at least some of the time. So, the cheating is, simultaneously, both an ego-protection mechanism and a desperate attempt to convince anybody who is willing to believe the lie that he is a much better golfer than he actually is. The same can be said about all of his lies leading up to and during his Presidencies. Ego protection plus hoping like hell that enough fools will be convinced that he is a much better President than he actually is.

The teenagers who cut and paste AI slop to sciforums have similar motivations, I think. Ego protection, in that they can delude themselves that they are smarter than they actually are by patting themselves on the back for having the initiative to type a query to a chat bot and read its response, which - I'm sure they rationalise - is almost the same thing as them understanding the bot's response. And hoping like hell that they will convince enough readers on sciforums that they are much better at science and conversation and knowledge stuff than they actually are.

 

[exchemist]

Actually, I think the answer is the same for both.

Trump cheats at golf because he can't bear to face the reality that he isn't as good at golf as he would like to be, and because his ego suffers a blow every time he realises that other people (including some of the people he plays golf with) are better golfers than he is. Since the thing he despises more than just about anything else in the world is reality getting in the way of his ego, and being aware that his ego and reality can't co-exist in the same room, the conclusion he reaches is that reality has to give way to ego.

He also holds the belief - and has no doubt learned from experience - that you can fool a lot of people at least some of the time. So, the cheating is, simultaneously, both an ego-protection mechanism and a desperate attempt to convince anybody who is willing to believe the lie that he is a much better golfer than he actually is. The same can be said about all of his lies leading up to and during his Presidencies. Ego protection plus hoping like hell that enough fools will be convinced that he is a much better President than he actually is.

The teenagers who cut and paste AI slop to sciforums have similar motivations, I think. Ego protection, in that they can delude themselves that they are smarter than they actually are by patting themselves on the back for having the initiative to type a query to a chat bot and read its response, which - I'm sure they rationalise - is almost the same thing as them understanding the bot's response. And hoping like hell that they will convince enough readers on sciforums that they are much better at science and conversation and knowledge stuff than they actually are.

Indeed.