Comment by stared
13 hours ago
Nothing beats when, in a chemistry paper, AI paraphrased „the final solution” into „the mass killing of an ethnic group”.
“Subsequently, 1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min.”
From: https://bsky.app/profile/forbetterscience.bsky.social/post/3...
How about "lactose bigotry" instead of "lactose intolerance" https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22lactose+bigotry%22
TIL I'm a lactose bigot
We all are, at some level.
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That would look good as a title on a nice business card. Letterpress, maybe.
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So the euphemism treadmill is spinning the other direction
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This doesn‘t sound like AI. LLMs do not use dictionary definitions for translating a paper this way. It does look like some translation engine like Google Translate or worse, maybe with some text obfuscator trying to avoid plagiarism detection.
Yes, this looks like something which predates AI by several decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06751 found that a lot of the outputs were characteristic of an online tool called SpinBot. (The tool no longer seems to work the same way that it did at the time.)
LLMs are not the only form of AI.
Simple substitution of phrases doesn’t sound like any AI.
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Either that or it was an AI trained on conversations between parents and teenagers.
Google Translate uses an LLM, last I heard.
It switched very recently I think if at all. It was way worse at translations than Gemini even at the beginning of this year. Especially between a pair of languages other than English. It was mixing two completely different words that are the same in English.
Only since 2023.
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That sounds like Anthrophics watermark explanation though.
Anthropic’s watermark is just using a known collection of random seeds during output token generation. That’s it. The models always relied on some randomness, here the randomness is fixed and remembered for querying later.
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That reminds me of an anecdote that my high school English teacher used to tell, as a way of cautioning against use of thesauruses: some student substituted "flatus" for "wind" in their composition, writing something like "a gentle flatus was blowing from the bay".
I also notice that "was opposed to 20 mL" and "unprotected to light" are also not phrases a human would likely produce for that sentence.
African American-tie dinner. Spin City 1996.
Related, from 1988: https://bousbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/image-9.png
This phenomenon is called the Euphemism Treadmill:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism_treadmill
I had sent this an hour ago as a quote with a few others (lactose bigotry, of course the kidney disappointment) to someone via iMessage. The Apple Intelligence summary was unfortunately not screenshotted by them, but I am told it was a doozy...
I've heard of microdosing Hitler but this is a whole new level of clbuttic.
its like how
“kissed the wall” was replaced with
“lost re-election”
in all the corpus I’m trying to use as training material right now
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