[ExI] AI software is now writing the internet

[William Flynn Wallace]

Scientific papers are ways for profs to get promotion and tenure, as we all
know.  What percentage of those are worthless?  For some journals, probably
100% (those where you have to pay to get it published).  For the very top
journals probably 25%.  This constitutes an enormous waste of talent.
Some, myself for instance, are not so hot at research and much better at
teaching.  I was able to avoid most research and others should be able to
choose this path.  This would lighten the worthless load quite a bit.  bill
w

On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 5:23 PM Colin Hales via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I recently acted as handling editor for a submission for a well known
> journal. The article was so bad it should not have gotten past a desk
> reject.
>
> I was forced to entertain the idea that the article was a hand edited
> construct  GPT3 , coached into existence  by toxified incentives of unknown
> kind.
>
> I still do not know what actually happened in the case of this article.
> Was it human? What i do know is that editing and reviewing scientific
> papers has a whole new aspect to it.
>
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 10:46 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Sample description -
>>
>> Finally, an AI that does your writing for you.
>> Say goodbye to writer’s block. With this AI writing assistant, you can
>> generate high-quality, human-level blog posts, landing pages, emails,
>> product descriptions, digital ads and more in seconds.
>> ----------------------
>>
>> The software is impressive but still needs human editing.
>> Fact-checking is also required. Since it uses the web to create, the
>> more widely covered the topic, the more sources it has to extract
>> information from. However, having more information available also
>> means that more misinformation is also available, making it harder to
>> tell facts from fiction.
>> Pricing can be expensive.
>>
>> It will soon be difficult to tell whether you are talking to or
>> reading posts from a human or AI software.
>>
>> BillK
>>
>> Sample companies:
>>
>> Jarvis AI
>> <https://ddiy.co/jarvis>
>>
>> Grammarly Business
>> <https://ddiy.co/grammarly-business>
>>
>> Peppertype.ai
>> <https://ddiy.co/peppertype>
>>
>> Writer
>> <https://ddiy.co/writercom>
>>
>> ContentBot
>> <https://ddiy.co/contentbot>
>>
>> Writesonic
>> <https://ddiy.co/writesonic>
>>
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