The human ability to identify stylistic AI Slop is,
likely educatable, as it is predicated on consuming AI content often. This is why a layman AI user can reach high accuracy, but a smart PhD in a no-AI academic bubble cannot.
reliant on fluid intelligence to some degree, and not easily transferrable from traditional writing skill. Otherwise, I find it hard to explain why e.g. Scott Alexander is so bad at spotting it.
[This applies to default-persona AI spam. I also believe motivated actors are undetectable beyond metadata, and mounting a campaign to improve the human sanity waterline could have disasterous race effects]
I feel like the defining characteristic of AI slop is that it invokes pauses and exclamation very often, and goes too shallow. I propose that shallow attention-seeking content is high reward and therefore self-reinforcing for human internet users → This becomes the majority of pre-AI internet content → AI learns to surface it as the statistically dominant form of writing.
mounting a campaign to improve the human sanity waterline could have disasterous race effects
The human ability to identify stylistic AI Slop is,
likely educatable, as it is predicated on consuming AI content often. This is why a layman AI user can reach high accuracy, but a smart PhD in a no-AI academic bubble cannot.
reliant on fluid intelligence to some degree, and not easily transferrable from traditional writing skill. Otherwise, I find it hard to explain why e.g. Scott Alexander is so bad at spotting it.
[This applies to default-persona AI spam. I also believe motivated actors are undetectable beyond metadata, and mounting a campaign to improve the human sanity waterline could have disasterous race effects]
I feel like the defining characteristic of AI slop is that it invokes pauses and exclamation very often, and goes too shallow. I propose that shallow attention-seeking content is high reward and therefore self-reinforcing for human internet users → This becomes the majority of pre-AI internet content → AI learns to surface it as the statistically dominant form of writing.
hmm, what does this mean?