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by brookst 1231 days ago
I understand the concerns, but I think you’re assuming that we are frozen in time. I think this is a brief moment where text is either AI generated or not.

In a year or two, leveling content as AI assisted would be like labeling something “electricity assisted” today; you’d just label everything (California prop 65 style).

Everything will have some level of AI involved. I mean even today we have spell checkers and grammar checkers and automatic summarizations that tons of people use. The gradient from that to text expansion and whole document creation is going to be blurry and gradual.

With you on pre-AI and post-AI epochs. It will be sort of like the way the internet itself caused pre-security and post-security epochs, and we’re still dealing with that.

But I think it’s great. Yes, we have to grow up. Yes, our tools have to get better. But just like the internet’s benefits far outweigh the security pain, I feel pretty good about AI cost/benefit ratios.