Fuck AI

Is proofreading a lost art?

Obviously, the inclusion of Marxism is a decent test, but I have taken samples of things I have written years ago and submitted them to see what it would say about my writing.

It says a high probability of my writing was done by AI, because I do use emdashes, oxford commas, and other such punctuation.

We can't trust anything checking to see if something was written by AI, any more than we can trust something written by AI.

Great read

Damn it sucks that the system that says you need a diploma to not be an impoverished slave your whole life encourages people to get the diploma but not to care how they get it.

Curious why you're only posting the archived version? This article is not paywalled...

I've been using it for a personal project, and it's been wonderful.

It hasn't written a word for me. But it's been really damn helpful as a research assistant. I can have it provide lists of unexplained events by location, or provide historical details about specific things in about 5 seconds.

And for quicky providing editing advice, where to punch up the language, what I can cut, or communicate more clearly. And I can do that without begging a person for days to read.

Is it always perfect? Not at all, but it definitely helps overall, when you make it clear to be honest, and not sugar-coat things. It's definitely mostly mediocre for creative advice, but good for technical advice.

It's a tool, and it can be used correctly, or it can be used to cheat.

Given how famously unreliable AI detectors are, and how often they FP, I'd say there's a decent chance a few students just lied, and falsely "admitted" to using AI, because they didn't want to risk flunking the class over a FP.