Want to find out if the text you’re reading online was written by an real human or spat out by a large language model (LLM) trying to sound like one? Mozilla’s Fakespot Deepfake Detector Firefox add-on may can help give you an indication. Similar to online AI detector tools, the add-on can analyse text (of 32 words or more) to identify patterns, traits, and tells common in AI generated or manipulated text. It uses Mozilla’s proprietary ApolloDFT engine and a set of open-source detection models.

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Made by people that either:

  • don’t understand how reinforcement learning works, or
  • are lying for publicity

Because there is not now, nor will there ever be, nor CAN there ever be, an effective AI detection tool.

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Sounds like a great idea, but a significant portion of 1-star reviews point out massive data collection issues.

More information necessary before I install this on my system.

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Did not see that till now - thanks!

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That would be great, but AI detection doesn’t work reliably at all.

Here’s a study https://edintegrity.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s40979-023-00146-z#Sec19

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Similar to online AI detector tools

Ah, so it’s useless then.

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I like the idea of a general AI detection approach. Problem is that it’s very easy to get false positives depending on the writer’s personal style. Accusing garbage of being garbage does nothing, but falsely accusing an individual of using AI when none is used will just lead to harmful witch hunt behavior.

Also, putting your trust in a flawed tool like this, which might miss actual AI written speech (or human bullshit speech) will just give a false sense of security.

Be careful out there fine folks. The unscrupulous used to lie using just humans, now they also use robots to do it.

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