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Comment by amelius

4 days ago

Unicode can maybe invent an escape code.

That is one law I could get behind actually: the absolute requirement to label any and all AI output by using a duplicate of all of Unicode that looks the same and feels the same but is actually binary in a different space.

And then browsers and text editors could render this according to the user's settings.

  • Yes, it would already help if they started with whitespace and punctuation. That would already give a big clue as to what is AI generated.

    In fact, using a different scheme, we can start now:

        U+200B — ZERO WIDTH SPACE
    

    Require that any space in AI output is followed by this zero-width character. If this is not acceptable then maybe apply a similar rule to the period character (so the number of "odd" characters is reduced to one per sentence).

    • Unfortunately, people here know their way around tools to take out the markers. Probably someone will vibe up a browser plugin for it.

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