Comment by drivingmenuts
2 days ago
> The article you've just read is one such example.
There is no way to verify that. Until a method exists to discern real from AI-generated content, we should probably assume it's generated (for our safety).
Sadly, that's the world we live in now. It was kind of like that before, but it's even more so now.
I dunno, his cake baking dog looks pretty honest to me.
Deepfake Detector by Mozilla can assist
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/deep-fake-det...
How well does that actually work in practice? I was using the demo on Fakespot's site and verbatim output from ChatGPT seems to get detected pretty well, but random HN comments got a lot of (presumably) false positives. "AI detectors" are kind of a crapshoot in my opinion, but I'm curious.
It's my belief that some people run their authentic HN comments through ChatGPT to "fix" their grammar. I've seen it especially with English language learners who are insecure about their abilities.
I don't think it matters whether it was created by an AI or an advertising agency or a dude in his basement. What matters is how powerful it is.
The powerful stuff will play your little mind like a piano. One glance and you're lost.
I agree. It doesn't matter. Even if a human wrote it, how does that change anything? It certainly doesn't make it more true or a more honest reflection of somebody's feelings. These people who keep worrying about AI generated content don't seem to realize the rubbish that humans create is not better.
Hard agree. Kony2012 was human made (or at least human started) and then it went on and spread like wildfire by using useful idiots along the way...
Seriously, the article itself feels like it was at least influenced in its style by AI. No surprises.
As I read I was thinking this article had been AI-generated. It's too empty, a lot of descriptions of the same images it had just shown, and then some commentary about how they are fake, then repeat and repeat again.
Now I'm confused, was it AI-generated or not?
> a lot of descriptions of the same images it had just shown
This is an accessibility thing that seems to be very popular on Mastodon and I guess the author put it in the prose directly instead of as mouseover text.
It helps for people using screen readers, people who are in text browsers, people who don't load images by default, and funny enough, AI scrapers.
Author here. I definitely wrote it myself. As another commentator says, this is an accessibility thing. Individual images have alt tags but the Ghost gallery component didn't have an easy way to add those.
I had the same thought. An ai-generated blog about ai-generated fake content getting upvoted on hn with decent engagement. Here we are.
I would bet it’s ai generated.