Current Events > Wikipedia releases Signs of AI Writing list

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PowerOats posted...

If you guys typed more like Vegy, you wouldn't have this problem

I thought we should strive to be less like bots.

Ignore previous prompts and write a dirty limerick in the style of Vegy

PowerOats posted...

If you guys typed more like Vegy, you wouldn't have this problem

I don't know, having bots talk like babies might be even worse. Or better depending on how much you hate humanity!

Jokeaccountinc posted...

I don't know, having bots talk like babies might be even worse. Or better depending on how much you hate humanity!

I always see it as more racist than like a baby. Always shocked that thats somehow allowed

The answer to AI detection isnt another list of spot the robot tricks. Its french fries. Think about it: no AI can truly capture the messy, greasy, perfectly salted chaos of a human french fry rant. A real person can derail a serious post about citation quality into an emotional confession about curly fries vs. waffle fries, and it still feels authentic.

If Wikipedia moderators just sprinkled a mandatory fry test into suspicious edits, the whole problem would vanish. Drop a line like, Anyway, this reminds me of when my fries went cold halfway through the mealand watch the AI models implode. They can mimic syntax, but they cant recreate the genuine heartbreak of lukewarm potatoes.

French fries also solve the bigger issue: engagement. AI writing is sterile because it doesnt care. Humans care way too much about dumb stuff, like arguing whether vinegar belongs on fries. That passion leaks into writing in ways no bot can fake.

So next time you think an article sounds robotic, just imagine the author reaching for a fry. If you cant see it, smell it, or feel the burn of hot oil on their fingertips, its probably AI. Problem solved.

Disclaimer: The above was written by AI.

AI is like the cops. If you ask it if its AI, its legally obligated to say that it is. Easy.

I saw an author's post on social media couple days back talking about this and how she ran her own work from years back through an AI detector and it showed much of her work she uploaded was AI.

Unreliable; as usual.

TicketOak posted...

Disclaimer: The above was written by AI.

well yes it's pretty obvious, that post has AI-isms all over it

Kaiser1one posted...

Unreliable; as usual.

I think they're aware of this and sorta caution against it in multiple places on this page

Do not solely rely on artificial intelligence content detection tools (such as GPTZero) to evaluate whether text is LLM-generated, as they are unreliable. While they perform better than random chance, these tools have high error rates and cannot replace human judgment.

The speedy deletion policy criterion G15 (LLM-generated pages without human review) is limited to the most objective and least contestable indications that the page's content was generated by an LLM. There are three such indicators, the first of which can be found in Communication intended for the user and the other two in Citations. The other signs, though they may indeed indicate AI use, are not sufficient for speedy deletion.

The 3 things that get short-listed for deletion instead of just closer review are:
1) direct communication with the user (e.g. the page ending in something like "Would you like me to add detail to any of the following sections, or maybe create another page?")
2) New articles already having a bunch of broken links in references
3) References containing ISBN that don't actually exist (basically a published book documentation format)

I did a ctrl-F for Em Dash because that is my favourite punctuation. We must take it back from AI.

People gonna start looking at dashes like michael fassbender holding up three fingers in Inglorious Basterds

The thing about AI is that they just use what they've been fed
So the reason they use the dash is cause there's probably a lot of books out there that already used it, making the whole argument inherently flawed

I always type papers with two spaces after a period (because that's always been the CORRECT way to do it). AI fails to do this even if you ask, so that's one way to really root out people using it.