Digital Deception
How dishonest are you?
I don't like AI content. I don't want to have to read AI- generated comments on my post. And, I don't want to vote on most AI-generated content.
So knowing this, if you are using AI to generate content or comments and I am voting on you, are you going to a) stop using AI tools, b) mark your content as AI generated, c) stop commenting on my posts, d) keep on using AI in the hope for votes.
So?
If you choose option D, go take a look in the mirror at yourself and recognize what you are:
Dishonest.
After all, if you have managed to read the first few lines, you will have read that I explicitly don't want to vote on AI-generated content. So if you persist, you are doing it knowingly, looking to deceive me, all for a vote.
Telling, isn't it?
In my opinion, AI-generated content is very low value, no matter what it says or depicts. But when people are using it for comments, it is absolutely shameful, because it takes the personal out of it. In my opinion, there should be no shadow of a doubt as to whether a comment is AI or not, because of the way it is written, and this should be even more evident over time. However, while I generally give the benefit of doubt for a bit, at some point, I will just stop interacting with them completely. Maybe even flag.
I find AI-generated content pathetic.
Well, that is not true. I find the people who believe that creating content using AI tools, makes them creative, pathetic. I know, there are some people who make some very cool-looking images using AI software, but I don't find it very creative at all, and not skillful. Perhaps it is because I am a bit older and come from a time where people had to actually do something themselves, they needed to have a skill, they needed to have something to trade. Where is the trade in AI-generated content?
Where is the human?
This sounds a lot like a rant, but we live in a world where convenience is the driving factor. So, people are using tools of all kinds to make their lives easier. But, it is not just that, because the tools can do what they can't do themselves. They can write better than the user, they can draw better than the user, they can animate better than the user, they can do pretty much anything better than the user.
Where is the human input?
I hear justification after justification of why people use it, but what it actually comes down to, is that they realize that with the skills they have, the resources they have, They can't compete with the AI. So, they use it to make themselves feel better about themselves, and pretend that they are the ones with agency, that they are the creatives behind the result. And as a result, they are making themselves even more irrelevant, more useless, less experienced.
You don't have to agree with me.
I don't really care what you do, or how you do it, but I don't want to support it. So, if you are using AI, let me know and I will stop voting on your content, whether post or comment. If you are reading this, using AI and don't let me know and I happen to vote on you, know that you are being deceptive. And then take a look in the mirror and know without a doubt, that is the kind of person you are.
I don't care what your justifications are for using generative AI tools.
It is hard to avoid using AI these days, I use it too, because when I take a photo, there are automations going on in the camera, then when I edit a photo I have taken, there are more automations, AIs at work to remove a spot, but this is a bit different, isn't it?
One of the things that I have always maintained through my blog, is me. It is my blog, no one or nothing else's. There is not another person on earth that could have created the same content I have, as each photo comes f rom my life, each edit is made by me, every experience that led to a story is mine, and every word I write has come from my mind, my thoughts, my hands.
There is a journey.
People are using AI as a shortcut to get results, but they have forgotten the fundamental rule of life that we have all heard a thousand times.
It is the journey that matters.
Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]
A wise man is saying and it was my professor in Child Adolescent that if you get your success on wrong way it is not a success but cheating, there is no such success in cheating.
Cheat your way to victory, is for people with low morals, or are incredibly desperate. Either way, they need to look in the mirror.
They need to look in the mirror they may get more attention or vote because of the content but I don't think they will get my respect as an author, I know sometimes I my grammar is wrong but At least I did my best to correct it and I don't rely on Al thing 💛☺️ that what best on our team that everytime we publish something here in hive we always check our blog on Al and plagiarism Detector to make sure that it is our original works.
Trust your talent as an author and don't rely on Al thing, because I know God created our mind to compost and to rely on Al.
I think an AI-generated content is the more professional way of plagiarism, simply dishonourableness.
Absolutely it is! In most cases at least, it isn't creating anything new, it is just stealing from many sources and blending it together. It definitely isn't an indication of personal creativity or skill.
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That's always been my aim with my blog, which is why I blog, or else I wouldn't see the need to blog and I would invest my time doing other things.
I have to
bite my tonguefreeze my finger from typing what's on my mind where AI content is concerned. I also resent reading/voting all sourced photo blogs, because I connect the writing to the photo(s) and vice versa.Originality shows effort to me and merits being rewarded.
Once we start rewarding the results over the effort, we also start becoming blind to what leads to the results. People complain about how terrible the corporations are - and then they behave as if they themselves are a corporation.
Although AI has its advantages, its disadvantages as well are undeniable.
Lately, I've been seeing AI integration from platforms that could replace professional digital work in the future. I say that because it is not far from truth. And although the advancement to technology has brought upon us this drastic change in the world, more and more people are getting involved. However, it robs away the chance to deeply learn the value and knowledge of fundamentals needed to know what they're doing as individuals who wants to develop a career.
As I said from one of my comments about AI design platforms; "There is a difference between someone who sees design and someone who knows design."
Coupled with the declining skills of the viewer, it is even more pronounced.
It is the lack of fundamentals that is going to be the biggest impact in the future. Generations of people, where 95% of them have nothing to offer.
Yes. It is like people who are good at using their phone, think that they are good with technology.
Precisely and up to the point!
I totally agree with you bro. There's just always something special about knowing a person took the time and effort to create something unique. AI can't replicate the personal touch and humanity in quality blogs written by people
There is nothing different between AI and plagiarism. I don’t like it too. Well, I may comment for upvotes but I always want to make sure that I write something reasonable that deserves to be upvoted
Make sure you always add value to the conversation, and then at least I don't mind upvoting. The upvote is there to reward value.
I don't even know how to use AI of any kind, except for the answers that come up first if I pose a question in my browser. Those I usually view with skepticism and look further. So no problems with my comments, ever, on anyone's posts. Why even bother?! Vacuous activity, wasted time.
But they are looking for tools to speed up the process, so then they can spend less time, creating more vacuous activity! ;D
Yes, being brain dead. Not my cup of tea.
Indeed, ‘It is the journey that matters’, as you state at the end of your publication. AI is here to stay ‘across the board’, and whether we like it or not, we have to end our days attached to it.
I remember when I was a high school student, I didn't like to use calculators, I did all calculations manually or mentally. Moreover, I did my exams with ink (pencil). At the end of high school, a teacher told me, “we know that you have mastered calculus and that you know all the formulas and procedures to apply, but time is cruel. With a calculator, you will do things faster…”. Behind these words, he gave me an HP scientific calculator, which I still have after 42 years or so.
It was my first contact with a computer system, then came the computer and from then on you know the story. In the end I had to adapt, like ‘everyone else’, to the use of the new technology. Today, AI is that calculator that I didn't want to use forty years ago.
We know that in HIVE it is dishonest to use content that is not generated by ourselves, based on the information and knowledge we have and our accumulated experience. But we cannot freely judge the content or comments made by a user lightly.
“He who makes the virus makes the antivirus”, as we say in computer science. There are now countless AI detection tools on a par with those that generate them. On HIVE, if the comment is short, the user is branded as lazy, and if it is long, then he has copied it from somewhere else and pasted it.
Each user is free to vote or not a post or a comment, no one forces him to do so, but for me, it is a rule of courtesy, that at least I get a response. In this sense, you are free to vote the content that pleases you or generates more profit, that's the routine.
Nope. To use the calculator, you still needed to understand the process. AI is quite different.
Ha ha ha. Technology is technology. We will die and progress will continue. The new generations, whether they like it or not, will have to continue evolving and adjusting to these new ways of life that technology will offer them, just like HIVE, arrived and all of us who live in it (you, me,... Everyone) have adapted , there is no way back.
There is no way back, but that doesn't mean I have to willing be marched on a detrimental path forward. You are using an excuse out of convenience.
We can adjust, and and we can join the progress using technology but we can rely on Al we have our mind to compost our own. Al is for the person that doesn't trust their capabilities to compost their own.
Agreed! While there is a place for AI, it has absolutely no business being used in communication with other people. As far as art goes it seems to fit well with fantasy drawings, but as you say...where is the skill in that? I don't want to converse with a machine either lol
Exactly. the people who justify it as a content creation tool for social media, seem to be a bit confused by the term "social" - it is still media - advertising media.
I’m a newbie here but the friend who invited me to this platform made me know how bad it is when you are engaging with the help of the AI. That’s some fake engagements and it makes no single sense
It is sad that people are so disengaged with what should be common sense.
Man, I don't even trust AI assistance for answering verifiable questions since half the time they get even the simplest stuff wrong.
right or wrong - not much is learned. It is like using a gps navigator to get places - you have to use it next time as well.
I've never used AI. I'm full of my own thoughts. Maybe in 20 years I will tell my AI assistant - well, look at all my comments for 20 years and write something from me tarazkp :)
After 6000+ articles, perhaps I should feed them into an AI and just rewrite bits of them in my voice.
Taking the human factor out of the ecuation is not what we want here, as I see Hive as a mean to create a connection of some sorts.
And I think that when people are willing to use AI and call it their own content, it tells something about what they are after - and it isn't human connection or value.
Show me the money!!! :)
There are people who love shortcuts. They want a better life, but they are not willing to face challenges. Just like using AI. They want to generate ideas and post them as if they're theirs. Proud and loud, yet dishonorable. It is better to be honest so we can get the support from others.
I actually do disagree with you on the whole image thing. I'm a sucky artist I will be the first to admit that. I can take a decent picture, and I feel like I am pretty creative when it comes to putting words together. Writing prompts to have images generated is a completely different art form though. I've tried it a couple of times and I can never quite get it right. Some might argue there is simply a formula to it that I haven't figured out yet, but as I said, I feel it is more of a skill, just like putting brush to canvas.
That being said, I'm not a fan of AI generated text and AI comments completely defeat the purpose for me. It's a clear money grab plain and simple. If they actually cared about the content they would have written a comment themselves.
If you credit the AI, tag it as AI, and decline reward for content you did not create, I'm less offended. If you use AI to generate an illustration for an original article, and credit the AI as you would another artist's image, I'm OK with it. Other people may have differing opinions, but those are my personal standards.
I would agree with that. AI text is a non starter for me, but I feel AI images are valid as long as they are credited properly.
I think it is more like a practice thing - a process thing. Would you call being able to change the timer on a microwave as a creative process? Because you can do it and your parents can't, does that make you more creative than them?
I don't mind AI art as a header or support, but pretending it is creative, or valuable content by itself is annoying.
I can see that point of view. It's definitely interesting. I think a lot of people wouldn't consider writing a blog post as creative either though. I really do feel there is a little bit of art to finding the right combination of words in the right order to get the desired result. It wouldn't be the first time a technical process has been described as an art. Some people consider coding an art after all.
Plagiarizing robots is lazy and dishonest. Claiming credit for AI-generated images because you wrote some text prompts is lazy and dishonest. I'm here to share personal experiences and challenge established ideas through dialogue.
And this is what I am interested in consuming - experience.
I agree. With the ever increasing use and reach of AI, I like Hive because they try to keep the posts organic. If I wanted to read AI created articles, I'll write a prompt of my own. But AI comments? Seriously? Are their brains rotting already to rely on AI for a few lines of comment? I know that if there are monetary gain to be had, people will always try to game it, and make it easier. I think they should do that in areas where they can earn more money, like the Stock market or Forex.
And there is the crux, what is the point of an AI article posted here to read, when I can create my own AI article? If you can't add value to me, why would you think your prompts can do more than I can do for myself?
Exactly. But we both know the answer. They are doing it to for the upvotes.
Whether we like it or not, the world without AI is slowly disappearing. We need to treat it as a tool, not behave like Luddites. My mother tongue is not English, and I always use translation tools. Not because I cannot express myself in English but because I want to express myself more correctly and make it easier for others to understand what I am trying to say. I also use Grammarly, which corrects my grammar.
And, well, as far as I know in this field, most translators are now AI-assisted, whether anyone likes it or not.
But, indeed, I haven't tried to generate either a story or a comment with AI. I can't imagine doing that anyway. A story is always generated in your head; AI can't replace that, but if it replaces your head instead of helping it, then your head is empty :)
I wouldn't talk about images, video, and even music right now, it's too broad a field, and not everything is so black and white there either.
I think we'll all end up as some kind of designers or creators of our worlds. (I got a flashback from Westworld 4)
There is a difference with the tool enhancing skills, and the tool replacing skills. There are people here posting content and comments that they could never create themselves, in any language, or with any skills they have. I would rather look at a crappy picture that took human time and effort, than a great image that took a half second to generate, based on a prompt.
Precisely. A lot of empty heads out there and that content, leads to more emptying of heads too. It consolidates information, homogenizes it subtly, and that influences the audience in ways that they will not feel in the moment, but looking back it will be obvious.
I don't want to look back at my life and realize I created nothing with it.
So far, I've managed to use ChatGPT only 3 to 4 times in the past year only. 3 out of those situations were to find good names for 3 different types of businesses, and one was to experiment and summarize a motto for one of those businesses. It does come in handy for such situations. I'm not a brand creator or marketer, so it does help out a person like myself.
Other than that, I've never touched that thing. I have used some AI-generated images previously in some spaces. You can create some really creative images if you know what you're doing, but I don't find it interesting anymore, it got boring really fast.
However, when it comes to writing, especially on Hive, it is all me, myself, and my flawed English. I do it this way simply to journal and capture my life, and also to practice and improve my English and writing skills. And I actually like the fact that unlike others, who use AI-written content on their social media, I keep it raw. I know people who have really fancy descriptions on their bios or content, but in real life, they couldn't even spell or pronounce some of those words lol. It is just not genuine, and I find it distasteful.
Content written by humans are always different from contents generated by artificial intelligence,
Original contents looks lively than artificial intelligence
Why would I use AI to generate contents or comments? As AI become my brain or mind? I think that contents and comments should be one's opinion not deception.
These days it's really hard to distinguish what is human generated and what is AI generated. Sometimes I have a gut feeling that some of the comments in my posts are AI generated, but there's no way to know. There are some websites like these (https://www.scribbr.com/ai-detector/) to test.. But interestingly, I actually copied and pasted some of my posts to test it out, and a few of them actually have a high probability of being AI content. So I guess it's either not accurate or the machine learning for these sites are still work in progress.