• YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
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    23 hours ago

    The DEWR “continues to investigate these claims and has sought urgent advice from Deloitte on these matters”.

    Pain. I am experiencing pain. Physical, mental, and spiritual pain. Oof. Ow. My soul.

  • HedyL@awful.systems
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    4 days ago

    This is a theory I had put forward before: Made-up (but plausible-sounding) sources are probably one of the few reliable “AI detectors.” Lazy people would not normally bother to come up with something like this themselves.

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      4 days ago

      Its probably the most reliable AI detector there is.

      Even if someone’s actively misrepresenting statistics/sources to push some kind of grift, those underlying stats/sources are near-certainly going to be genuine if they aren’t using AI - not out of any moral obligation, but because made-up stats/sources will get their entire grift thrown out if they’re discovered.

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        because made-up stats/sources will get their entire grift thrown out if they’re discovered

        I believe it is not just that. Making up some of those references as a human (in a way that sounds credible) would require quite a lot of effort and creativity. I think this is a case where the AI actually performs “excellently” at a task that is less than useless in practice.