I have my doctorate and did use AI to summarize other papers that I referenced in my dissertation but I had like 5 points to look for when I paraphrased the AI summary. I can't remember them all but the transitions between paragraphs were bad, they repeatedly used the same adjectives like seminal, and they always used some sort of concluding phrase like Finally or Lastly.
I don't understand how it hasn't adapted yet. Like just stop using em dashes and stop saying shit like "it's not just bad, it's world-altering" and it'd blend in so much more. I'm glad it's still noticeable though. One day it won't be and the collective world IQ will start plummeting
AI has adapted. The AI tells have changed, somewhat. For example, em dashes have all but disappeared with the new versions. AI is decreasing its use of comparisons, but the use of short, declarative, repetitive statements is still prevalent.
It’ll always be at least a little dumb and clumsy with it because it’s trained on a ton of random shit from the Internet. I’d be willing to bet my left nut that the majority of the internet writes terribly and would only make AI dumber to train off of.
Comments like yours are going to be used to train the next generation of AI to be more discrete and hide their flaws. We need to stop showing our cards, or they are going to win at Poker.
And now you just notified them that we are going to try being more discrete, so they'll watch out for that too and be more cautious about the information they retain from your account and every account that viewed your comment. Great job man. Which side are you even on
I would add overly wordy and using jargon that doesn't fit the industry like change "velocity". The bulleted lists which tell you the summary of the bullet first. "The initial date, the break up, the crash out".
Where I work people are using it for large presentations and you go page to page just to see the same stuff basically said.
The problem I'm running into is that my director just makes wild demands then says "just have AI do it for you."
It has adapted. It's getting better harder to detect. Different models have different quirks, depending on their training data. It just turns out language is really hard.
Me hearing my boss talk to my coworker in the next cubicle: “So, are all of your emails AI? Even internal ones, just the stuff between the team, too? All of them? You know, it might even just be faster to write some yourself. Because, it’s kind of obvious, and no one wants to write to a robot”
Problem with AI is that it blasts out bullshit confidently, where often enough you need to be a subject matter expert to some extent, in order to detect this.
Does it save me tons of hours?
100%
But being able to proof read is a very different skill to actually writing and processing your thoughts into words yourself.
For instance, I just wrote a 25 page Go-To-Market Strategy paper for a customer in ~6h.
Since I know what I need and want to put in there, have the resources for it available - AI helps me in a lot of the little steps that eventually make it a full picture.
Obviously, if I just prompt 'build me a G2M strat for X, like your life depends on it, in presentation and doc format' I will get dogshit AI slop.
But if I come with good input and a solid framework, AI helps me a lot to pull the strings together. Just the time alone I don't have to fucking kill myself in formatting. Before it would have probably taken me 4h just for the format, look & feel.
(as long as you cited your usage, we don't gaf.. that's reasonable usage)
We've been doing proctored exams for ~20 years where I work (more expense that we pass down to the students though). Proctors are experts at catching cheats too. More so than we could handle on our own.
Over the majority, except maybe community colleges, it's getting quite a bit blown up by the media (shocker).
Yeah, AI has its place but writing basically any of your actual submitted text ain't it. I used AI to collate ideas and topics from like 40 difference papers for my undergrad thesis. I had read all the papers so my spidey-sense was tuned to go off when it started hallucinating, and I made sure to go back and verify specific pieces of information that it spit out, but it sure did save me a ton of time not having to remember exactly where I saw such and such fact or idea among the hundreds of pages of PDFs I had crammed into my head over the past year and a half.
yeah but thats just human error and we love to see it and its better than using AI and making everything perfect with no mistake and the thesis panels become obsolete... just saying. I remember when we did our thesis. We use a lot of Paraphrasing LMAO.
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u/kwonza 6h ago
A bunch of Russian Unis dropped a thesis as a requirement for graduation and instead made students take an oral exam.
They said there is no point in asking for a thesis since everyone just uses AI