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by merek 1125 days ago
IMO this sounds infeasible, since AI human generated content exists on continuum. At one end is content 100% written by a human, at the other end is 100% AI written content. How do we label everything in between? For example, AI written content that was tweaked by a human? Or human written content with some sentences written by AI?

Furthermore, it seems unenforceable. As AI becomes more sophisticated (if this isn't the case already), it will be virtually impossible to prove mislabelling.

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This.

I have written a number of documents recently that are AI assisted but definitely my own work. I use the LLM to help me cross reference topics, clean up some of the language, improve the flow and prepare for the potential follow-up discussions but the arguments and recommendations are still mine. Is this AI or not?

Side note: I just prepared a recommendation for an org change and had the AI argue against it, as well as provide responses. Some were good and some were weak but it was extremely useful and quite fun.

Yesterday I sent out an invite for a family event we're organizing.

This time, I figured I'll use GPT-4 to help me write the perfect text. I described the details of the event, my relationship to the invitee (inb4: without any kind of PII, of course), the style, tone and context of the desired text, and asked GPT-4 to generate suggestions. I went back and forth with it, asking it to generate more variants of a specific suggestions, then taught it a simple markup for editing and asked to iterate on specific words and sentences, until I was somewhat satisfied with the result.

Then I asked my wife for her idea, and she quickly wrote a little text of her own. Only afterwards, I showed her the best (to me) of GPT-4 texts. We then mixed the sentences from both together, creating a final work that's 50% OG, perfectly clean text written by my wife, and 50% the output of GPT-4 (with me guiding it).

Is that text a work of AI? Or of a human? Or both? Is it even 50% AI and 50% human, given that the AI part were created from my input, and then edited by my telling GPT-4 what to change, and then finally approved by me using my own judgement?

Does a random website sharing invitation templates on-line have a copyright case, if a couple sentences from our text matched something of theirs? What if it wasn't the AI part that matched?

Does using a smart spell check count? The new grammer checks might be AI powered.

Where is the line?

For reference, Gmail and docs 100% use generative ai[0]: "As language understanding models use billions of common phrases and sentences to automatically learn about the world, they can also reflect human cognitive biases"

0: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/9116836?hl=en&co=GENI...