🚨Don't Be Fooled: Why You Shouldn't Pass Off AI Writing as Your Own

[azurbanclucker]

Or BS?

Not BS for sure.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

What do teachers do now to weed out AI written student reports? Or do students even write reports any more? lol

My mom reads through and makes sure it sounds like her students. Right now the ones she's caught very obviously don't even try to hide that they're using AI. Probably becUse they don't think she actually reads all of the papers. Or because they don't care.

 

[RoyalChick]

I would like to take a moment and make a clarification here, because it's an important one.

AI models are not stealing anyone's art any more than saving it as desktop wallpaper is stealing it. AI models are trained on a data set provided by the programmer. It isn't some autonomous computer presence surfing the internet gobbling up copyrighted works at will and then reproducing them. The AI is still only capable of building results based on the training data it's fed. If there's no Picasso in that data (for example), asking it to do a piece in the style of Picasso will probably get you something insane and not at all in the style of Picasso. Fault the developer here, not the AI itself. It is only as smart as its programming is, and it's only as intelligent as the data set lets it be. A human is still determining what the AI knows, and so instead of this being some scary computer program out to steal all the world's great works, it's really just another case of HUMAN malfeasance or HUMAN stupidity on the programmer's part. Don't blame the code, blame the coder.

There are several lawsuits in flight concerning AI training data and copyright infringement (Getty V Stability AI being a notable one). This is shockingly similar to "Sampling" in music, which was rampant in hip hop in the 90's and eventually resulted in changes to copyright law and new types of licensing. What we're (probably) going to see is new laws and rules around how and what kinds of data can be used for training AI's, and what compensation creators can seek in order to license their work as part of that data set.

I will also point out that much of art is taking inspiration from the work of others or interpreting a theme you see in your own way. Ask 10 people to paint the same bowl of fruit for a still life, and you will get 10 similar but distinctly different paintings. Ask the same 10 people to paint their version of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and not one of them will 100% faithfully reproduce it.

As an artist, I have no problem whatsoever with throwing a description of a piece I want to work up into an AI and asking it for inspiration. I've got several original pieces in various states of progress based on asking an AI to create an image I'm having trouble visualizing from the pieces in my head.

So in the end, AI is just another tool. The human operating it (be that the programmer or the person asking it to "make me a picture of a sandwich that looks like it was painted by Dali" ) are still the problem in the equation.

(P.S. Is this original or AI?)

I think it’s mainly original but probably with some AI inspiration/help.
AmIright?

 

[Shadrach]

What do teachers do now to weed out AI written student reports? Or do students even write reports any more? lol

Use AI to find similar text on the net.

 

[RoyalChick]

My mom reads through and makes sure it sounds like her students. Right now the ones she's caught very obviously don't even try to hide that they're using AI. Probably becUse they don't think she actually reads all of the papers. Or because they don't care.

Like when half my class wrote
How Now Brown Cow
In the middle of our essays to see if the teacher was actually reading them.
Unfortunately she was!

 

[RoyalChick]

Use AI to find similar text on the net.

My head is spinning.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Like when half my class wrote
How Now Brown Cow
In the middle of our essays to see if the teacher was actually reading them.
Unfortunately she was!

Yeah. When you have a student that can barely put two sentences together properly in class handing in essays that sound like they're written by a college English major, you can usually figure out real quick that the student didn't actually write that themselves

 

[azurbanclucker]

I think it’s mainly original but probably with some AI inspiration/help.
AmIright?

Are you asking aboit how I approach it? Yes. My ideas for my own original pieces

 

[Evadig]

I do not like AI at all.

It's just plain annoying. I don't want to have to click no, thanks every time I open Microsoft Word or other sites.

It facilitates plagiarism. Y'all discussed that aplenty so I won't comment .

AI becomes a crutch that people can't break away from - like technology itself. My local school district's entire computer system was shut down for weeks. Students had to take tests with paper and pencil...they were literally having nervous breakdowns over it. Too many students use AI to help them write essays - then when they're taking a test and AI isn't available they don't know how to write correctly because they never learned (then they cry that they got a bad grade!)

I also feel AI is like...I don't exactly know how to phrase this but it seems to me it's like the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Like we're trying to be like God. And I know He created us to create things but artificial intelligence is going too far. I mean, at least all the websites, all the articles and images were created by real people, not a machine. And for a machine to be able to do what only humans can do (not even dogs or chimpanzees can make complicated images and write essays!) is just...frightening.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I do not like AI at all.

It's just plain annoying. I don't want to have to click no, thanks every time I open Microsoft Word or other sites.

It facilitates plagiarism. Y'all discussed that aplenty so I won't comment .

AI becomes a crutch that people can't break away from - like technology itself. My local school district's entire computer system was shut down for weeks. Students had to take tests with paper and pencil...they were literally having nervous breakdowns over it. Too many students use AI to help them write essays - then when they're taking a test and AI isn't available they don't know how to write correctly because they never learned (then they cry that they got a bad grade!)

I also feel AI is like...I don't exactly know how to phrase this but it seems to me it's like the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Like we're trying to be like God. And I know He created us to create things but artificial intelligence is going too far. I mean, at least all the websites, all the articles and images were created by real people, not a machine. And for a machine to be able to do what only humans can do (not even dogs or chimpanzees can make complicated images and write essays!) is just...frightening.

Wait… kids don’t take tests with paper and pencil anymore!?!?!?