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scritches? (media.piefed.social)
submitted 34 minutes ago by bad1080@piefed.social to c/NiceMemes@sopuli.xyz
 
 
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About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron—a story about a dystopian society that enforces “equality” by handicapping anyone who excels—and the AI detection tool flagged the essay as “18% AI written.” The culprit? Using the word “devoid.” When the word was swapped out for “without,” the score magically dropped to 0%.

The irony of being forced to dumb down an essay about a story warning against the forced suppression of excellence was not lost on me. Or on my kid, who spent a frustrating afternoon removing words and testing sentences one at a time, trying to figure out what invisible tripwire the algorithm had set. The lesson the kid absorbed was clear: write less creatively, use simpler vocabulary, and don’t sound too good, because sounding good is now suspicious.

At the time, I worried this was going to become a much bigger problem. That the fear of AI “cheating” would create a culture that actively punished good writing and pushed students toward mediocrity. I was hoping I’d be wrong about that.

Turns out … I was not wrong.

I'm accused of being AI on other sites simply because I construct complex sentences with regularity -- and use emdashes.

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submitted 17 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago) by negativenull@piefed.world to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
 
 

Dr. Crusher, Medicine Woman

TNG 408: "Future Imperfect"

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