Tag Archives: text content

TechCrunch: OpenAI’s attempts to watermark AI text hit limits

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TechCrunch: OpenAI’s attempts to watermark AI text hit limits. “Did a human write that, or ChatGPT? It can be hard to tell — perhaps too hard, its creator OpenAI thinks, which is why it is working on a way to ‘watermark’ AI-generated content. In a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin, computer science professor Scott Aaronson, currently a guest researcher at OpenAI, revealed that OpenAI is developing a tool for ‘statistically watermarking the outputs of a text [AI system].'”

A New Search Engine for Cruising the Old Web: Marginalia

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New-to-me, via Awesome Archives: Marginalia. From the About Page: “Remember when you used to explore the Internet, when you used to discover cool little websites made by people and it wasn’t just a bunch of low effort content mill listicles and blog spam? I want to show you that the Internet you used to go exploring is still very much there. There are still tons of small personal websites, and a wealth of long form text from both the past and the present.” I see there’s an API too… hmm…

Poynter: Forget fake news stories. False text posts are getting massive engagement on Facebook.

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Poynter: Forget fake news stories. False text posts are getting massive engagement on Facebook.. “When Facebook started letting users post text on top of colored backgrounds in 2016, it seemed like a fairly benign way to get people to share more personal thoughts on the platform…. But since then, like other formats on Facebook, the text post feature has been weaponized into an effective way to spread misinformation on the platform.”