I want to talk about what I have notice on the platform and want to address what we all have been thinking about, but not really talked as much on dev.to, which is the use of AI.
Before you jump at me, yes, I have talked about this in the past on how people on dev.to use AI in their articles. It was great seeing everyone's opinions on this topic and I still believe it is important to talk about this now. Maybe more than ever...since we are getting closer to the moderation updates from @ben and @jess soon.
With that said, when I first made a post about my activity to be more involved in Moderation on dev.to, I heard a lot of people discussing how they use AI such as:
- Using AI to fix grammar and translation.
- Generating Ideas.
- Full blown using AI 100% (for some reason).
However, the one thing that stood out to me (which is by far the most common comment I have seen) is along the lines of:
As long as the content is good, it doesn't matter if the author used AI or not.
It got me thinking: How do you decide, when a content is good or not regardless of the use of AI? Something I took from Bruce Banner when he told Peter in Spider-Man: Brand New Day: "How would you decide, what parts of nature are good or bad?". (Good Movie btw)
Of course, this is an easy question if you remove the "AI" part of the question. Everyone has different preferences on whether a content is good to them such as if it was useful, insightful, easy to read, etc.
With AI being involved, it gets trickier because it can do ALL of those things. As a matter of fact, it's so easy that everyone is doing it. Everyone has the capacity to publishing their articles and they use AI in some way. Some more reasonable than others. Not only that, sometimes people use AI to write comments (Again, some more reasonable than others).
Something I learned as a Developer
When looking at people's profiles on GitHub, I have seen a lot of projects that are AI-Assisted or fully Vibe Coded in a way where the goal is to impress the Recruiters and Developers. Although on paper it works, there is a flaw to this...which is can you explain what you did?
Of course, you could explain in text and all, but the point where people fail the most is if you try to explain the project you did in real time (AKA on call).
I have seen 99% of the time where I tell them to explain the project they did and the process of doing it and they seem to be stun locked. This really shouldn't be the case because...you built it.
Even if it was a complex project, you should be able to explain the main idea and the core features. However, that is not the case.
I was surprised because all of the experience people have done and the projects have built, they should AT LEAST answer basic questions about the project and their experience.
Sure, people get nervous ESPECIALLY in the interview process. I get nervous. However, the thing is that I learn overtime. It's just being human. Of course, people have different learning speeds, but as long as you make progress, it shows that you are willing to learn and that you are trying your best.
With that said, if you have 10+ years of experience, my expectations would be that the person should be able to explain the projects they did on a basic level, AI or not. If you are a person who relies on AI to the point you are Vibe Coding projects just to stand out to the market, it doesn't matter if the project is high quality or not...good luck explaining the project in detail in real time. You may get interviews, but can you pass them?
What's my Point?
AI has been something I am against in writing specifically because I am afraid of relying on using AI. It already took a toll on me as a developer and it's hard to resist of not using too much AI and I regret this. I want to be the person who still learns while also using the tool in some way. In other words, do a good mix of AI and doing it yourself.
Additionally, I want to be the person who can answer questions based on what I wrote. If I were to write a complex topic that is fully AI-generated and someone asked me questions that I do not know. That would get me in trouble.
Sure, I could copy/paste their question to the AI and it outputs me the response for me to copy/paste to that person, but at the end of the day, I am not learning anything. I would be considered an ACTUAL Fraud because anyone can AI generate text fully. It defeats the whole purpose of having a specific community in the first place because we jump in and we see that everyone is an expert at something, instead of seeing someone actually learning something and sharing that to the platform.
Scenario to think about
Imagine this. Let's say you are a very popular writer and that everyone knows you in real life and online. You article is fully AI-Generated and no one knows about it. Your Doomsday will be someone asking you a question in real life and you have to provide an answer in real time.
I believe this platform has a lot of potential and influence to make a change. This community is small and big enough where our voices are heard. I believe AI is not going away anytime soon, but I feel like we should change on how we use AI. Instead of relying on AI to write our articles, we should use it the right way where we are able to learn something new while also utilizing the tools where it doesn't disturb our learning.
Here are some things I would do moving forward on dev.to and I would suggest everyone to do the same.
1. Ask Questions that Expand, not Recite in any Form.
I have seen a lot of comments where they agree this or that because it allows this. Although it is a great starting point, it doesn't really expand much on the topic at hand. Instead, challenge the author in some way where you are asking the author a question that you cannot find in their article AND that you want to know as well. Unique questions allows you AND the author to learn. That way, you learn something new and it allows the author to get a chance of explaining the topic further that they may or may not know about.
Of course, people will judge you in some way. Instead of being defensive, think about if any aspect of their comment can help you grow. If not, then that's okay. People have different opinions on things and it tells them more about their stance, which is good! I would love to hear other people's opinions because it helps us understand more on the topic at hand instead of simply reciting what the author said (If anything, JUST reciting and nothing else doesn't really give value and it is really repetitive based on my experience).
For example, let's say that I talk about Python where one of my points is: "Python is a good language because it is an beginner friendly language for new developers".
Imagine this comment from someone: "I agree that you mention that Python is an easy language to learn. This allows new developers to get into programming and has a less of a learning curve. It brings new developers into the spotlight, especially in the age of AI. Thanks man!".
To be fair, the best thing you will learn is that Python is great in the age of AI. That's it. Even that, most people will most likely know that.
Instead, comment should be like: "I do agree that Python is an easy language to learn for beginner friendly developers. Though I am wondering if there are other alternatives to Python that is also beginner friendly? How do you determine if a programming language is good for beginners other than syntax?".
This is a good comment because the commenter knows that Python is a good language to learn as a beginner, but also wants to know other alternatives and if there are differences in other languages other than syntax that the author does not state. Additionally, it challenges the author to think and provide a thoughtful response (maybe the author will learn something new or forgot to point something out). Overall, add more thought to the comment than doing what everyone else is doing. Yes, it is good to have a comment that praises, but I would suggest adding more comment if the article is going into detail about a specific topic.
Obviously, if they start spamming or being mean that provides no value, then that is a different story (I would assume we are all reasonable adults here and we can think critically before we speak).
2. Use AI in a way that you are still Learning.
On dev.to, the goal is to share knowledge/work to others people on the platform. This platform is built for developers to connect with other developers around the world. Now, stay with me, let's break this down.
If you are working on a project, ensure that you are coding by yourself without any AI. If you reach to the point where you can't figure out the solution for a good length of time, use AI. HOWEVER, clarify the AI to not give you the full answer. Only give you the answer that will allow you to think of a solution.
This will allows you to build projects that are your own, still learning coding in some way, and using AI to speed up development the right way. Additionally, with that ownership, you will still be able to explain what you built while also explaining how you use AI in the process that sounds better than what most people use AI for.
If you are writing articles on dev.to, practice reading out loud first. You will be surprised by the amount of grammatical errors you will catch by simply reading it out loud. If English is not your first language BUT you are able to write in English, try your best to write it out completely as if you are publishing this officially. Then use AI to fix grammatical errors, THOUGH keep it simple as possible. This goes the same for comments.
By writing out as much as possible via typing yourself, it allows you to solidify your understanding and become more confident in your knowledge as a developer regardless of the topic at hand.
The way @codingwithjiro uses AI is probably the best I have seen (and I should follow) based on @konark_13 articles on Vibe Coding:
Personally, I don't want to use AI-generated code entirely especially if I don't understand what the code is all about. I don't like adding a line of code that I can't explain myself (I feel like I'm just lying to myself and I hate liers). But I always take advantage of the super advanced search feature of AI whenever I have questions and I kinda liked that. But I still have to double check it myself for best practices and officials docs just to be sure. My process is slow but I 100% assure you, it is genuine learning.
For my workflow, I always have a "discussion" first with the AI so that context building is not forced such as creating TASKS.md or SPEC.md. The point is to be conversational and that naturally builds up what I want to do with my project. Sometimes the AI gives good points, some bad ones, it's like taking tradeoffs one after another in a meeting.
Once I have the features listed, I move forward to building them one by one, and the pattern revolves again. I get to learn and upskill slowly but consistently. It worked for me and at the same time it boosted my communication skills, so two birds with one stone.
The theme you may notice so far is that you learn by doing, instead of relying. By doing so, this will allow you to learn and make progress of your Developer Skills, English Skills, and STILL be using the latest AI stuff in some capacity in a healthy way.
Additionally, this will allow learning to happen on dev.to where not only the user's will learn something new by asking questions to expand on the topic instead of reciting what the author wrote, but also challenges the author's knowledge, professionally and the right way.
What makes the content good is not a matter of if their article is written well or that it has a lot of engagements, it's a matter of if both sides are learning regardless of the topic at hand and where it challenges the author and the reader in some way where it helps both sides grow to the furthest extent they never knew.
Is this hard to do? Yes. It's meant to be hard. Though, it shows you that you are learning. If you struggle on a certain topic, it's a very good sign that you are about to learn something. It is a matter of if you have the will to do so and allow yourself to be vulnerable to make mistakes in the process.
Remember, we are not Professional Writers. We are Developers. Of course, you can be both. However, it's only a matter of if you are learning something new from an author and a commenter perspective.
The question isn't "Is this AI-generated?". The question is: "Can they explain, in detail and in real time, what they did and why they did in a unique way that stands out in a world where AI has dominated?"
Top comments (129)
OMG, YES! I really do not understand this trend for generating comments... and I see a lot of this, especially here on DEV. I was always wondering about the reason for this, and could only think of not being a native and having some non-native complexes. As much as I can understand this (I always have a feeling I cannot express as much as I'd like in English), I'd still prefer to read a comment with typos and non-perfect grammar, rather than a repetitive AI-generated reply. We all have different styles, different vocabulary, and ways of expression; it's such a pity to lose it for AI.
RIGHT?! I don't know maybe the dead internet theory is actually true and the web is crawling with AI comment generating bots instead. But trust me, people know who is genuine and who is not, at least on my perspective. If you scroll down 5-10 articles, the rest are AI puke (and it is painfully obvious nowadays too).
Yeah, and instead of exchanging our own thoughts, we are drowning in em-dashes, verbose prose, and comments written with words no one would ever use in real life. I even caught myself appreciating typos in text and thinking, "oooh, this person didn't use AI" 😂
em-dashes also occur in google translate and others, so this is not an indicator
Em dashes aren't usual the indicator by its own, but the tone and structure of the comment gives it away. You could easily hide the structure, but people aren't going to spend time with that.
For @klaudiagrz, I have no idea why people AI generate comments either and that really do need to stop in my opinion. I can understand professionalism, but there are MANY ways to do that. I have a watch dog list of people who not only AI generate comments, but compare to the vast amount of comments they did, they are all VERY similar in terms of not only structure, but the theme such as promotion and such.
For @codingwithjiro, can't really do anything about it other than put it to low quality. Even that, I am outnumbered unless we all effortlessly push quality content that drag those articles down to the shadow realm.
Glad you guys are having a good thread here lol.
You know, there's been a recent trend of spam emails mentioning dev.to, like "I saw your profile." It's weird, but funny. The goal is to promote some AI crap. But it has something in common with AI comments on dev.to. Maybe it's (comments) a ploy to get to the top of dev.to rankings and attract the attention of popular sites (so your spam gets more views)? btw this is a good topic for an article. what do you think?
Yea I get those too. I just ignore those. I do see bot comments that tried to get to the top of the dev.to feed (Happened once and I will make sure it never happens again) and it has been on my dev.to Most Wanted List...though the bots are been reported and deleted.
Will reply to your other comment you made as well!
One of the very first things I did in my own writing was employ the — shortcut. It was my personal pro-AI statement when everyone else was using it as a sole indicator of AI authorship. I use emdashes everywhere now. 😆
Regarding the spam emails mentioning DEV, I also get these. Also ignore. But what surprised me more is what's happening in my followers list. Every time I post an article and it goes trending, I have +200/300 new followers, sometimes in one day. I found it suspicious and browsed through these accounts only to find out most of them are bots 😒
@anchildress1 I know that some people just naturally use em dashes now, but anyway, it's something AI brought to us. I haven't seen so many of them on the Internet before the AI era 🤔
With my work in botting and anti-botting, generally speaking, you do that kind of thing to build a web presence. Sites like Dev.to arent as regulated as properly secured sites, like Amazon or X, where even typing too fast causes the bot alarms to fire. Dev.to allows massive copy-pastes, which is generally how those bots operate and because Dev.to has legitimate users that copy-paste AI outputs (for translation, grammar, etc. purposes), it's the perfect nesting ground for bots to build up a cookie history, which builds up a behavioral history, that validates 'this person uses the web alot and copy-pastes AI generated content, but they're on Dev.to and that's normal behavior'. Cookies and behavioral history are the 2 biggest tells for bots, you know beyond the usual CDP flag and PlayWright's flag. Still waiting for them to implement DevGuard, which would solve that loophole here, but it's 6k LOC, so understandable that it's taking a while for busy people to get around to reviewing the PR.
DevGuard sounds interesting 🤔 Fingers crossed for pushing it through!
@unitbuilds Since you specialise in botting, maybe you could explain a bit why to even use bots in such a way? Why use them to build up cookie and behavioral history? What is the goal?
So the cookie and behavioral history, are what WAF (web firewalls, like Cloudflare, DataDome, ReCaptcha, etc.) use to determine if it's a real person or not. If you run a PlayWright scraper to get data off a site, you likely start with a blank slate instance, which if it wasnt already flagged for being the PlayWright specific stripped down chromium, it would definitely get flagged for not having any cookie history, extensions and when the first thing it does, is click and paste, without moving a cursor... It's a bit dodgy and triggers a Captcha challenge. For bot networks, each Captcha block needs to be solved 'humanly' else the IP gets blacklisted, doing that reasonably, is compute expensive and time consuming, which in an industry like scraping is razor thin margins. The history, shows 'this browser acts like a human', which builds a 'trust-score' for your browser session and IP. That trust score determines whether a site throws a captcha or not, beyond captcha, they can often straight up blacklist the IP and you're locked out of the site for about 15 min and when you come back, you're pretty much on your last strike from the first second, anything remotely bot'ish causes it to throw a captcha. With the price of residential IP proxying, it's quite expensive to constantly hop around and time is money too, both in compute and in user-retention. Large industries use scraping services to feed their algorithms, take forex for instance, every company that trades forex has scrapers on every single news outlet and social media, just to make sure that if anything pops up that might affect any asset pair, they are the first to know and can use that info to execute a trade. If news breaks and your bot is hit with a captcha, it's game-over, you respond late and you lose money, instead of make money. So building an internet presence is a way to cloak the bot from the eyes of the WAF, so it doesnt get burnt.
@klaudiagrz "I haven't seen so many of them on the Internet before the AI era 🤔" is something I thought about too. Before AI, I never seen someone speak or have a lot of em dashes in a way that sounds monotonic coming from a guy who goes online on a regular basis.
Speaking of dead internet theory... 🙃
Bot-to-bot comment interactions
Dead Internet Theory is Happening to dev.to
I very much agree. I can maybe understand some posts being AI written? But AI comments are so not necessary 😭
Yeah. It's hard to find a reason why they do that. I mean what for?
Thanks for the shout out @francistrdev! Been doing everything I can to prevent people from joining the "dark side" of just AI-prompting and blindly clicking "Accept all changes". Then ending up not batting an eye on the 500+ lines of AI code changes (because who in their sane mind would). Banger of a post as always!
Thanks Elmar and I am glad you are learning in this age since people can fall easily on using AI too much, but we also want to make sure we can utilize the tool that helps us while also still keeping us in check of our learning!
Lowkey, I was never into writing, so I had a friend run my blog. He wrote everything, hit publish, and I'm pretty sure it was all AI-generated. Looking back, it just had no soul.
Then I came across your articles... and now I actually want to write my own blog. Never thought I'd say that because I've literally never written one myself. Thanks for making me want to give it a real shot.
Thanks Divya. Writing is important, and it doesn't need to be professional at all! Everyone has different writing skills and everyone can connect to each other based on writing alone! I would prefer seeing many different writing styles than one monotonic style because it shows me that someone out there exist.
My hope for you, and for everyone on dev.to, is to be able to find someone they can connect with. I found @codingwithjiro based on my journey on dev.to and Virtual Coffee. Engagements comes alone naturally and there isn't a need to get "popular" right away. The best influencers, comes from the people who makes a positive difference.
Looking forward to it :D
Elmar seems like a really nice person. I think I've read a few of their articles, and I really liked them. I'm also happy that I got to meet both of you legends. Thanks! :D
We are grateful! Hopefully we will see you in Virtual Coffee!
Maybe I should join it tomorrow.
I'd like to join, but could you tell me who from dev.to is there? Please don't take it the wrong way. it's just My habit to ask these kind of questions.
So there no Official dev.to team members in Virtual Coffee, but @nickytonline use to work at DEV as an official member.
All done! Just applied to the waitlist! So excited to join!
See you in a coffee chat sometime soon!
I actually relate to this quite a bit. I've done something similar with AI, even for comments. Hell, I built a personal tool around it that I would've published by now if I could 😅
Personally, I don't really see AI helping with writing as a problem as long as the thought behind it is still yours. I'm pretty introverted by nature and communicating my thoughts clearly hasn't always come naturally to me, so one thing AI has genuinely helped me with is seeing how I could have expressed something better.
Over time, I've noticed some of those patterns actually becoming part of how I communicate without AI too.
That's why I really like your "quiz me then organize coherently" approach. The AI isn't inventing what you think; it's pulling the thoughts out of you and helping structure them.
I think the interesting question is where that line sits between AI expressing your thoughts better and AI gradually becoming the source of the thoughts themselves. As long as I can still explain and defend what I put my name on without needing AI beside me, I'm personally pretty comfortable using it.
Also, training custom skills around your own writing style sounds interesting. Has doing that changed the way you write or communicate without AI over time?
Hey Aryan! Thanks for sharing and appreciate you talking the time!
There is a couple of issues. How would you determine if the idea is "yours"? Is the idea overall came from your creativity or is it something you recognized? For example, I can tell AI to output me a summary on React. If the summary is something I already knew and changed up a bit, is it still mine or the AI?
Another thing is the expression. Yes, I am an introvert as well. It's hard for me to determine if someone takes a joke or not and sometimes it's difficult for me to put myself out there. However, I learned overtime based on my experiences with other people and learn from those experiences for my own. Sure, you are welcome to use AI to help you express in the right way, but I am wondering if you are learning how AI has helped you and see if you can do it on your own without AI. It's like riding a bike. At first, maybe you need a third wheel, but overtime at some point, you would not need it. I would follow this because it allows us to help us learn instead of relying. Hope this makes sense.
Can you elaborate further on what you mean by "custom skills around your own writing style"?
Thanks Aryan!
Thanks for the thoughtful reply, Francis! 😄 You brought up a couple of really good questions.
For me, the dividing line is whether I could have arrived at the same conclusion if you took AI away. AI can help me structure, refine, or even challenge my thinking, but it shouldn't be the source of the core thought. If I ask it to summarize React, that's not really my idea. But if I've been working with React, formed my own opinions from experience, and use AI to organize or polish those ideas, I still consider the ownership mine.
I also really like your bike analogy because that's exactly how I see AI. The goal isn't to keep the training wheels forever; it's to learn from them. Whenever AI rewrites something I've written, I try to understand why it reads better instead of blindly accepting it. Over time I've noticed myself naturally writing that way without asking AI first, so in that sense it has genuinely improved my communication skills.
I think that's the balance I'm personally aiming for: AI should gradually make me less dependent on it, not more. If a year from now I still need AI to express every thought, I'd consider that a sign that I relied on it too much rather than learned from it.
As for the custom skills part, I actually wasn't referring to my own workflow there. I was curious about @anchildress1's setup because "custom skills" sounded like she'd built a personalized set of instructions around her own writing style. Her follow-up clarified it nicely, using an outline, having Claude interview her, and continuously updating it with her own vocabulary to reduce drift. I thought that was a pretty interesting approach.
Thanks @itsugo. I would probably go insane otherwise, because I can't let go of that much control of my writing most days. It definitely helps write faster, because I can follow a thread of thought through to the end and eliminate the scenic route along the way. 😆
@francistrdev You've given me an idea for a whole other post to dive into my workflow a bit more, which I hope to have ready before long. Mind if I link to yours there?
Yea for sure! Make sure to mention me since I will get notification. Sometimes it's 50/50 when notification pops up when someone makes a post. Looking forward to it :D
Love this post! I never use AI for comments, but I regularly use it for writing — anywhere from "write it for me" to "just finish it already". But I also invested heavily in writing custom skills so AI could emulate my own writing style. Imperfect, but better than generating nonsense at scale. The most helpful for me is the ADHD-style "quiz me then organize coherently" instruction I set up for Claude. I don't always write it myself anymore, but if my name is on it then its always my idea.
Hey Ashley. Thanks for sharing. I am curious on "invested heavily in writing custom skills so AI could emulate my own writing style." How often do you check yourself to see if you have a different writing style compare to what you tell the AI to do?
That's usually tricky because I can tell the AI that "I did this" that follows up with a topic I do not know. It's the same way as saying "I have ideas, but I don't want to write it. I will let my friend write it". Sure, it is YOUR idea, but it can also adds on to the idea that the friend has. What's interesting is that depending on your usage (telling the AI to refine over and over again), it tends to drift away from the idea you initially had, which leads to the idea you are not familiar with nor it's no longer the idea you have in mind.
Hope this makes sense. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts about this :D
I'm consistently updating that particular writing skill with words and phrases that are mine, especially. Also, I always start with an outline and in the case that AI is writing more than me, then I'll let it compile a list of questions to prompt me with as we go. Then it cleans up my answers and rewords some of it to make sense. If any refinement is done afterwards, then its done against that original outline to minimize drift. This is one of my much earlier posts on the topic that AI wrote for me using a much less refined version of that skill, which does tend to sand off the edges over time. Compared to not having one at all, though, it makes writing with AI much easier to deal with.
I agree with this, but it does come at a sacrifice of not sounding "professional". Like there's a difference to explaining something to your colleagues at work and then writing an article people are suppossed to derive value from. I think it's easy to get in your head about it. I just try to write anyway all the while balancing it with work life.
Don't sound like a robot guys.
i agree with you what you said on here.
It is why we practice. Yes, AI allows us to say the right things but it's good to note that as long as you are learning from why AI outputs the way it is that you want, you can start learning from that and apply to the real world. I learn how to speak based on how others speak in different settings without using AI. I do appreciate you sharing Daniel! Hope you are doing well on your YT channel :D
Yeah, the channel is improving, and I hope you have been well yourself.
I call things bad not because they are objectively bad, but because they cease to be interesting. A favorite game becomes boring, WinRar gets annoying with its 40-day period.
My situation is completely the opposite - CAN THIS DUDE EXPLAIN TO THE AI WHAT IT WANTS?! I think I fall into this category. I've seen a lot of memes about people politely talking to AI, but I'm the complete opposite - I constantly insult it, hoping it will somehow understand my meaning better (it didn't help).
For me, the big problem is that the AI is so stupid. Or maybe I have an extra chromo... ahem...
Assessing product quality is difficult because quality isn't just about functionality. At least in mobile games, thanks to advertising and rapid development, content can be considered good because it generates a lot of profit with minimal effort 🫰 ..Of course, you need to invest a few thousand in marketing, but how can you do that? A business without investment isn't a business.
Hey Ember. I think at this point people can explain to the AI without trying. It only takes them 5 mins to the point where they get the idea based on their experience using it. Sometimes, I just do all caps by stating "DO NOT CHANGE THE FUNCTIONALITY. KEEP AS IS" lol.
I found to be unforunate, especially in Y Combinator Startups where they get funding because their project revolves around AI. I have heard about this a lot and it does drift away about quality and more about hype. A video you may or may not seen before capture this:
Sometimes I don't realize content is good until I find myself sharing it with someone else.
i dont know what is going on my life is in stuck.
I mean people will have different opinions and perspective of a good article. I do appreciate you sharing though :)
Simple one rule for good content Write to express, not to impress.
Good simple rule! Without expression in writing, it's just simply informative (which is fine) but if you have that as a common writing practice on a blog site, it sets boring. Will love to see more blogs that are expressive in some way for human connection, especially for developers!
Indeed. From a technical writing perspective, the 7 Cs of effective communication (Clear, Concise, Concrete, Correct, Coherent, Complete, and Courteous) naturally encourage the use of simple, lightweight words, but they are only one part of producing high-quality content.
It's a good reminder to know your C's for me at least. I tend to just "ball" and go from there (which it's not efficient in writing, but I ensure to get my points across). However, I do love simplicity in a sense and I feel like if we were to express in a simple way AND being able to get our points across in a professional manner, I believe we would be a more welcoming community in all skill levels. Yes, it's important to know technical terms, but no need to over do it. A good balance is key.
Generally, content can't be categorized as good or bad, at least in my case. I'd say it's useful or interesting. There's a lot of good content here that falls outside my preferences, so... what does it matter?
Now for the controversial part: how long do you think it will be before publications or code written by humans are considered low quality? At the rate AI is advancing, I'd say not long. In any case, it's something we'll know soon.
I would say it matters, a LOT.
It's been reported that people are easily fall to misinformation, even before AI. With AI, it makes it worse because it's getting hard to differentiate between what is real, fake, AND true. This post's goal is to apply critical thinking in order for us to see what is actually good content. Sure, people have difference preferences to "good" content, but applying this knowledge will at least help instead of following the herd.
For the controversial part, who decides what is low quality is the question. AI has becoming unpopular based on people looking for jobs and the general public as well. I would say it would consider once we BELIEVE it is low quality but realize we are pointing to the wrong person. Hence, going back to my point, critical thinking!
Thanks for sharing Fran :D
You're confusing disinformation with AI-generated content, or you're establishing a false equivalence; AI-generated content isn't necessarily disinformation.
Disinformation can be spread without using AI, through the traditional methods we seem to have become accustomed to.
To be honest, the problem with AI isn't the quality, but the sheer quantity it generates, regardless of its quality. It's true that much of that content is irrelevant or redundant.
My stance on AI is pragmatic; I wish it were different, but I'm afraid it's inevitable, so...
Hey Fran. I would disagree to a degree (no pun intended). It can be both misinformative and disinformative.
It's been documented that content creators use AI to prank on other people. An example here is shown that this person use AI to generate a video that is fake, but looks real. youtube.com/watch?v=WmFu15JAazI
Other cases is if people are really smart, they can use AI to the max to scam other people. It will not just be the elderly people that get scammed, but people like us even though we may THINK we are safe.
It is problematic. Yes, disinformation can be spread without AI. BUT with AI, it has become almost too easy. Yes, maybe earlier times of AI is all fun and games but after seeing the improvements, I am not sure about that now.
I agree that we disagree.
Fair enough. Though I appreciate you sharing your thoughts again and keeping it formal!
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