Earlier this year, WIRED asked AI detection startup Pangram Labs to analyze Medium. It took a sampling of 274,466 recent posts over a six week period and estimated that over 47 percent were likely AI-generated. “This is a couple orders of magnitude more than what I see on the rest of the internet,” says Pangram CEO Max Spero. (The company’s analysis of one day of global news sites this summer found 7 percent as likely AI-generated.)
How well does the “AI detection startup’s” product work? This is a big unsolved problem but I’d be hecka skeptical.
It doesn’t, and never will
That’s because of bots like you. (I kid to make a point.)
That’s exactly what a bot would say, to stay undetected.
That is why I liked the comparison with articles from 2018. Then you have comparable texts in the same format and can more easily figure out differences in your analysis.
If true, a jump from 3% to 40% is significant to say the least.
@Black616Angel numbers in the article blurb are 7% for the pre-2018 corpus, and 40% for the post-2018 corpus. That is from less than 1 in 10 to almost 1 in 2, or a coin toss…
(Update: the blurb from the link speaks about 7% and 47%, but the article itself indeed speaks of 3% and 40%, apologies! That is even more dramatic, going from less than 1 in 20 to 2 out of 5, very close to 1 in 2…)
My numbers were from the Originality AI part.
@Black616Angel yes, I’ve realized that and corrected my post while you responded 😉
Maybe the blurb was AI-generated? 🤦🏻♂️