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Don't use AI detectors for anything important

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

Bonus: Several ways of looking at a sandwich hole

In an effort to make AI detectors stop classifying a paragraph from my book as AI generated, I experimented with a few different ways of getting chatGPT to reword it. Here are some of my favorites.

The emoji of the future

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

Bonus: More extrapolated emoji

Optimum tic-tac-toe

ChatGPT text can sound very knowledgeable until the topic is something you know well. Like tic-tac-toe.

If O places their mark in the bottom left corner, the board would look like this: (ChatGPT makes a tic-tac-toe diagram with O in the upper and lower left corners, and X in the left two spots in the middle row. It is clear that on this turn, X can win by placing a third X in the middle row.). ChatGPT: From here, X will likely place their fourth mark in one of the remaining corners, and then the game will progress depending on each player's strategy. However, at this point, it's important to note that X cannot win the game, and the best X can do is to block O from winning.

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