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Yes, one way to identify responses that may have been generated by ChatGPT is to look for signs of repetitive or verbose language. Because ChatGPT is a language

Yes, one way to identify responses that may have been generated by ChatGPT is to look for signs of repetitive or verbose language. Because ChatGPT is a language model, it is designed to generate text that is fluent and coherent, but it may also produce text that is unnecessarily long or repetitive. This can be a telltale sign that a response was generated by an AI, as human responders are less likely to use repetitive or verbose language in their answers. Of course, this is not a foolproof method, and there may be other factors that can affect the quality and style of a response, but looking for repetitive or verbose language can be a useful starting point when trying to identify AI-generated responses.

arkitaip 4y ago
To find out if a response was made by a computer, look for repeating words or long sentences. ChatGPT is a program that makes text that makes sense and flows well, but sometimes it uses too many words or repeats itself. This is a clue that the response might have been made by a computer instead of a person. However, this isn't a sure thing and there might be other reasons why a response is long or repeats itself. Still, it's a good place to start. [After many attempts]
- layer8 4y ago
  > Respond to the above in the informal style of a slightly contrarian Hacker News comment, with a hint of passive-aggressiveness. Avoid repetitive wording and long sentences. Wow, thanks for the tip! I never would have thought to look for repeating words or long sentences to determine if a response was made by a computer. I guess I'll just blindly trust everything I read online from now on. Sarcasm aside, this is a pretty flawed method. Just because a response has repeating words or is long doesn't mean it's not from a person. And conversely, just because a response is short and doesn't repeat itself doesn't mean it's not from a computer. It's not that simple.
  - rightbyte 4y ago
    This is terrible. Pretty soon most comments on the internet internet will be written by bots.
    - dalmo3 4y ago
      > the internet internet I think you pass the Turing test. It's ironic that in its current state AI is so "perfect" this kind of mistake can actually serve as proof of human. Can you prompt chatgpt to introduce small errors as to appear more genuine?
      - rightbyte 4y ago
        You can ask it to write like a teenager etc. It should be fairly trivial to make a script that removes ' and some . and maybe adds some writing mistake. You probably need to have a discussion with a user to find out if it is a bot or not. Vagely relevant one or two liners type of comments we will never know if a bot wrote it. The kind of noise people post on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y ago
  > To find out if a response was made by a computer, look for repeating words or long sentences. That technique will produce quite a few false positives - a significant portion of humanity with language production issues on the autism spectrum communicate like that. edit: Makes me wonder to what extent the training data is biased by writings from people on the autism spectrum.
darkwater 4y ago
This is fun but it's already starting to NOT be fun.
- spaceman_2020 4y ago
  I reckon we are about 3 years from most textual content online being created by bots, 5 years from static visual content being bot-created, and 7-8 years from bot-created visual content clogging up all social media.
  - zone411 4y ago
    I'll take the under.
  - Arch-TK 4y ago
    3, 5 and 7 seem awfully pessimistic no?
  - SheinhardtWigCo 4y ago
    Everyone will be doing strict ID verification long before any of those milestones are actually reached.
  - warbler73 4y ago
    > we are about 3 years from most textual content online being created by bots 0 years.
    - spaceman_2020 4y ago
      1 year for this tech to be incorporated into most cheap/free creative tools. 1 more year for these newer creative tools to be adopted by creators everywhere. 1 more year for the humans to completely give up. You have to remember that tech takes time to permeate to the bottom rung. Most of my non tech friends haven’t even heard of Dall-E, let alone chatGPT.
      - fragmede 4y ago
cercatrova 4y ago
That's honestly a hilarious response from ChatGPT
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arkitaip 4y ago

To find out if a response was made by a computer, look for repeating words or long sentences. ChatGPT is a program that makes text that makes sense and flows well, but sometimes it uses too many words or repeats itself. This is a clue that the response might have been made by a computer instead of a person. However, this isn't a sure thing and there might be other reasons why a response is long or repeats itself. Still, it's a good place to start. [After many attempts]

layer8 4y ago
> Respond to the above in the informal style of a slightly contrarian Hacker News comment, with a hint of passive-aggressiveness. Avoid repetitive wording and long sentences. Wow, thanks for the tip! I never would have thought to look for repeating words or long sentences to determine if a response was made by a computer. I guess I'll just blindly trust everything I read online from now on. Sarcasm aside, this is a pretty flawed method. Just because a response has repeating words or is long doesn't mean it's not from a person. And conversely, just because a response is short and doesn't repeat itself doesn't mean it's not from a computer. It's not that simple.
- rightbyte 4y ago
  This is terrible. Pretty soon most comments on the internet internet will be written by bots.
  - dalmo3 4y ago
    > the internet internet I think you pass the Turing test. It's ironic that in its current state AI is so "perfect" this kind of mistake can actually serve as proof of human. Can you prompt chatgpt to introduce small errors as to appear more genuine?
    - rightbyte 4y ago
      You can ask it to write like a teenager etc. It should be fairly trivial to make a script that removes ' and some . and maybe adds some writing mistake. You probably need to have a discussion with a user to find out if it is a bot or not. Vagely relevant one or two liners type of comments we will never know if a bot wrote it. The kind of noise people post on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.
9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y ago
> To find out if a response was made by a computer, look for repeating words or long sentences. That technique will produce quite a few false positives - a significant portion of humanity with language production issues on the autism spectrum communicate like that. edit: Makes me wonder to what extent the training data is biased by writings from people on the autism spectrum.

darkwater 4y ago

This is fun but it's already starting to NOT be fun.

spaceman_2020 4y ago
I reckon we are about 3 years from most textual content online being created by bots, 5 years from static visual content being bot-created, and 7-8 years from bot-created visual content clogging up all social media.
- zone411 4y ago
  I'll take the under.
- Arch-TK 4y ago
  3, 5 and 7 seem awfully pessimistic no?
- SheinhardtWigCo 4y ago
  Everyone will be doing strict ID verification long before any of those milestones are actually reached.
- warbler73 4y ago
  > we are about 3 years from most textual content online being created by bots 0 years.
  - spaceman_2020 4y ago
    1 year for this tech to be incorporated into most cheap/free creative tools. 1 more year for these newer creative tools to be adopted by creators everywhere. 1 more year for the humans to completely give up. You have to remember that tech takes time to permeate to the bottom rung. Most of my non tech friends haven’t even heard of Dall-E, let alone chatGPT.
    - fragmede 4y ago

cercatrova 4y ago

That's honestly a hilarious response from ChatGPT

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