AI Weirdness (Page 5)

Non-native speaker essays misclassified as AI-written 48% up to 75% of the time vs 0%-12% for native speakers

Don't use AI detectors for anything important

By Janelle Shane On June 30, 2023 - 4 min read

I've noted before that because AI detectors produce false positives, it's unethical to use them to detect cheating. Now there's a new study that shows it's even worse. Not only do AI detectors falsely flag human-written text as AI-written, the way in

Emoji include some kind of baby seal-horse and a sun-lion-eagle griffin.

The emoji of the future

By Janelle Shane On June 17, 2023 - 2 min read

Some of the recent image-generating models have this thing where they can fill in the blank parts of images. It's handy when you want to show them exactly how to give you more of the same. Like these animal emoji. See if you can tell which ones I

ChatGPT confidently losing at tic-tac-toe

Optimum tic-tac-toe

By Janelle Shane On May 26, 2023 - 2 min read

ChatGPT text can sound very knowledgeable until the topic is something you know well. Like tic-tac-toe. Once I heard that ChatGPT can play tic-tac-toe I played several games against it and it confidently lost every single one. Part of the problem seemed to be that it couldn't keep

ChatGPT describes code that draws a pink pony but actually produces a pink pig face

Chatbot, draw!

By Janelle Shane On May 05, 2023 - 3 min read

I'm interested in cases where it's obvious that chatbots are bluffing. For example, when Bard claims its ASCII unicorn art has clearly visible horn and legs but it looks like this: or when ChatGPT claims its ASCII art says "Lies" when it clearly says

Chatgpt: Here's the ASCII art of the word "lies" (generates block letters that clearly read "sip")

What does this say?

By Janelle Shane On April 15, 2023 - 3 min read

Large language models like ChatGPT, GPT-4, and Bard are trained to generate answers that merely sound correct, and perhaps nowhere is that more evident than when they rate their own ASCII art. I previously had them rate their ASCII drawings, but it's true that representational art can be

Don't use AI detectors for anything important

The emoji of the future

Optimum tic-tac-toe

Chatbot, draw!

What does this say?

Writing

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