Dispatches from the Empire


The reverse turing test.

GPT–4 (came up with)/(retrieved from its database) some excellent questions for this purpose and did identify human or AI correctly in both cases. Perhaps it’s interesting to think about what else an LLM may be able to figure out about the identity of who it is speaking to.

Everything you write or post online — text, images, video — is being used to train these large language models.

My writing style can be effectively copied and used to convince others they are reading something I’ve written, when in fact it’s pure AI.

You will not be able to (and perhaps already can’t) trust anything you read as ‘real.’