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Proving Humanity: The Failure of AI Detection Tools
OpenAI publicly launched ChatGPT on November 30, 2022. Five days later, Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, tweeted the following: “I am a stochastic parrot, and so r u”.
The tweet is a reference to a 2021 AI ethics paper, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?”, which describes LLMs as stochastic parrots—able to convincingly repeat information based on probability, but unable to truly comprehend their outputs. While the paper ultimately uses this metaphor to frame its argument on the limitations and downsides of AI, Altman’s motives are more opaque. Mere days after the release…
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