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OpenAI's AI detector feature sparks user confusion

OpenAI's AI detector has a feature that can rewrite text to sound less like AI, a capability that one user finds counterintuitive. The user questions the utility of such a feature, suggesting it would be simpler to write the text originally or to embrace its AI-generated nature. AI

IMPACT Raises questions about the practical application and user perception of AI detection and generation tools.

RANK_REASON User commentary on a feature of an AI product.

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OpenAI's AI detector feature sparks user confusion

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Do this many people have to desperately write essay-length products that they really really would rather not do the work for? Uh...*thinks about corporate jobs,

    Do this many people have to desperately write essay-length products that they really really would rather not do the work for? Uh...*thinks about corporate jobs, degrees people only take to get said corporate jobs*...yes, yes they do. Sad world we've made, isn't it? # society # te…

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    TIL OpenAI has an "AI detector" which offers, as one of its primary features, an AI to rewrite the text to make it sound less AI...uh, wouldn't it just be easie

    TIL OpenAI has an "AI detector" which offers, as one of its primary features, an AI to rewrite the text to make it sound less AI...uh, wouldn't it just be easier to write it yourself? Or to just accept its "AI"-ness? Like, WTF is this? # AI # LLMs # machinelearning # artificialin…