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How Kindle novelists are using ChatGPT
Josh Dzieza, The Verge, 2022/12/27

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According to this article, authors of Kindle genre fiction, who emphasize quantity over quality, have been experimenting with AI tools. "One novelist discusses how writers are thinking about ChatGPT... AI helped them write quickly, but it also raised complex aesthetic and ethical questions. Would the widespread use of AI warp fiction toward the most common conventions and tropes?" These are good questions. Historically, the use of AI in, say, recommender systems, has had the effect of either pushing content toward te middle, or pushing it toward the extremes.

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All That's 'Human' Is Not Gold: Evaluating Human Evaluation of Generated Text
Elizabeth Clark, et al., arXiv.org, 2022/12/27

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No doubt teachers and instructors think they will be able to spot when students use AI to write their papers and assignments. Not so fast. "How well can evaluators detect and judge machine-generated text?" Not well, it turns out. "Without training, evaluators distinguished between GPT3- and human-authored text at random chance level." Even with training, reports this article (16 page PDF), the results are not good. Think you can do better? Try this game for yourself. Once you're satisfied, then take some time to carefully review this article (35 page PDF) on a comprehensive survey of threat models and detection methods for machine generated text.

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TwitterGPT Chrome Extension - Respond to tweets with ChatGPT
Rik Van Kerckhoven, Product Hunt, 2022/12/27

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From the description: "With this extensions you can get tweets drafted for you by AI Use the engine of ChatGPT to reply to tweets." I installed the extension on Chrome and tried it for myself, but it just generated an error; your experience may vary. Still, the possibility of such a tool in the hands of millions should be noted. "This chrome extension is useful for anyone trying to grow fast on twitter!" says the article. Ick.

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