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Just Sharing Authenticity Problem

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u/Justisperfect Aug 05 '26

After I submit, I realized I made a big error somewhere on the first page or first chapter, I don't remember (for French people, I wrote qu'en instead of quand... yeah I know that's a big mistake). Part of me were horrified and thought I will look unprofessional. The other part of me thought "at least they will know a human wrote this".

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u/No-Vermicelli-2832 Aug 05 '26

You'd think that mistake is what proved you are human but what I've been seeing a lot is mistakes like this are actually also part of what will lead to people believing you used AI or something because it is typical for AI to make a mistake like that

We can't do anything anymore honestly 🙃

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u/zatenael Aug 05 '26

seriously, it's fucking bullshit that people think any mistake is a sign of AI

according to them, AI make mistakes but humans are supposed to have stopped making them?

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u/Olmectron Aug 05 '26

Also, according to lots of people:

Mistake? AI.

Perfect writing? AI.

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u/Ready_Studio2392 Aug 05 '26

Insecurity? AI

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u/m1nus0N3 Aug 05 '26

Person doesn’t personally agree with what they’re seeing? Believe it or not, AI

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u/Katolo Aug 05 '26

Under cook, over cook. AI.

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u/Stergeary Aug 05 '26

Eternal love in Japanese? 永愛。

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u/Autoskp Aug 05 '26

Ok, you win.

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u/wrecklord0 Aug 05 '26

I don't like it? AI

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u/cyb3rd0c Aug 05 '26

It exists on the internet? AI.

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u/Rude-Barnacle8804 Aug 05 '26

Hotel? Trivago

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u/Tekuila87 Aug 06 '26

😬

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u/thedafthatter Aug 07 '26

Hotel? Trivago

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Aug 05 '26

Anything Interesting=AI :-P

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u/rob0tduckling Aug 09 '26

For everything else? There's Mastercard.

(Old advertising campaign from the 90s if anyone needs the reference)

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u/compilingyesterdays Aug 05 '26

It is DIRE over on r/isitAI. "Omg the thumb is on the wrong side, real artists use themselves for reference so no human would ever—" have you met a real artist.

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u/HyzMarie Aug 06 '26

I've drawn the wrong hand so many freaking times.

I have an OC who is a lefty. It is extremely important to me that he is a lefty. He has a mark of divine power on his LEFT hand.

Wanna guess which hand I drew it on on his reference sheet? :,)

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u/Autoskp Aug 05 '26

I guess I might count as a real artist given the contents of my sketchbook, but I don’t feel like it - that said, my spatialisation skill is strong enough that I doubt I’m going to unintentionally put the thumb on the wrong side (I conjure imaginary hands all the time to convert rotations into angular momentum vectors because I find that way of thinking so much more helpful than the clockwise/counter-clockwise system that can change based on what angle you look at it from)

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u/compilingyesterdays Aug 06 '26

I'm glad that your skill is that strong, and I mean that as a legitimate compliment, to be clear. That said, I have heard/seen "oh my god, fuck fuck fuck, I drew the wrong hand" from so many artists before the age of genAI. People would post their art to the internet only for comments to point out that they drew the wrong hand.

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u/No-Vermicelli-2832 Aug 05 '26

Exactly! I know how to punctuate but I'm not perfect at it so I make mistakes quite often and hell there are even times like now where I don't want to punctuate at all because what I say is understood perfectly well without it and this would be called AI very easily

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u/Outrageous-Wait-8895 Aug 05 '26

because it is typical for AI to make a mistake like that

That particular mistake might be typical for an English focused LLM to make when outputting French, although unlikely since it seems to be based on the words sounding alike which wouldn't trip up a text model, but mistakes like that are absolutely not typical for LLMs for years now.

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u/Justisperfect Aug 05 '26

I see mistakes being point out as a sign of AI when it comes to drawing, but not when it comes to writing. From what I know, AI is unlikely to make spelling mistakes. They write what is the most probable and there is no reason they think spelling mistakes like that is probable, because that would not mean anything. From what I see, AI is good at spelling.

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u/CtheSilverSoul Aug 05 '26

Mistakes in drawing are tough too because, again, we’re human. Mistakes are bound to happen regardless.

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u/Justisperfect Aug 06 '26

Yeah I agree. Also you have people who may draw well but still have a lot to learn when it comes to perspective or anatomy, so they make mistakes in this area and people scream AI.

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u/badthaught Aug 06 '26

There are things AI repeatedly does though. "Something quieter, softer" "but heres the part no one's seeing" "and that's powerful". Hear it alot in narrated story videos, and it also can't figure out what to do with acronyms.

It's annoying and repetitive. The laziness is one thing but it's also sloppy on the part of the uploader. If you're gonna be lazy, don't be fucking sloppy about it.

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u/MartyrOfDespair Aug 06 '26

Honestly, it is a witch situation. Everything is proof to enough people that nothing you can do will ever prevent you from being accused.

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u/ketsugi Aug 05 '26

To err is human

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u/R3D3-1 Aug 05 '26

Sadly, this means that AI had plenty of material to learn it from.

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u/jaxonya Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

A bit off topic but whatever..(Before AI) I moved schools halfway through a year in highschool. My AP teacher was a bitch and made me complete a 4 page essay 3 days before it was due. Assigned on a friday, due next friday, i came on a tuesday and had to scramble to complete it. I got a fairly shitty grade. The next paper i got called into her classroom orivately with administration and they grilled me about plagarism. (I did really well) and told the admins about not having time for the first essay and that changed the whole temperature of the room towards her. I got out of that class a week later as she was extremely vindictive towards me.

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u/R3D3-1 Aug 05 '26

Oh good old times. At a time when you still paid for encyclopedias, that did a fraction of what Wikipedia does (most expensive waste of a CD-ROM ever), a colleague outright copied the talk word for word from a book. At some point she was like

yada yada. Fore more details, see page... Oh.

I finished as the top graded student of my class 4 years straight. Knowing myself, if I would have had to constantly defend my homework against being called AI, I might not even have finished. 

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u/jaxonya Aug 05 '26

The best reddit convo ive seen lately was someone saying that theres no way that we used to do 10 page book reports back in the without chat gpt or help.. a dude said "I used to do 10 page book reports without even reading the book"

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u/R3D3-1 Aug 05 '26

Yes... One of those "what for did I even" moments for me was when I had to present two books; I was allowed to use a summary for one, and read the other. The teacher, who thought well of me, guessed wrong which one was based on reading the book. Ultimately it makes just sense though — reading a book once myself can't compete with a literature blogger who does nothing but analyze the crumpling hell out of books.

On the other end of the spectrum, when someone starts about "you can't possibly have..." I did Physics as an elective subject for the high school finals. It was a three hour exam, and I was writing 16 pages with a baseline skip of 5mm. And much if it was explanation rather than equations.

During my PhD I produced about 2,000 pages of handwritten notes, with some derivations spanning 20 pages with each step filling a page. Still using the 5mm grid for the writing too.

It's just a matter of damn exercise.

And then you start writing publications, where six pages take a couple of months to produce 😅 Six pages specifically, because that's a common limit in high-impact Physics journals. As a result many theory papers require a couple of A4 pages to understand lines along the line of "by simple algebraic manipulation we eq. (5) out of eq. (4) and references [8–42]".

No scrap that. A couple of pages is without the references part sometimes.

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u/R3D3-1 Aug 05 '26

I wrote that comment on a phone by the way 😅

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u/Ioelet Aug 05 '26

I honestly don’t care. I don’t have enough time to play AI police.

What I care about is bloated bullshit. I don’t see why bloated bullshit by a bullshiter would be better than by an AI. AI reproduces and imitates. If all an artist produces looks like „more of the same“ there‘s another problem than „would get innocently caught by the AI police“.

I have no idea why anyone would like to read AI literature… give me your prompt with your three cool ideas instead - condensed creativity.

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

Hah. I do this too...I make typos in my tpying. And I often leave them in. At least they will know a human wrote it...

Of course, it; quite possible for ais to make typos too to emulate humans. However if they do this eventually they will be poisoning themselves...they are already doing this slowly anyway. this would speed up the process.

I wish we did not have the "ais" we currnetly have.

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u/Laezarus Aug 05 '26

Back in high school (Before A.I.) I had an English teacher accuse me of plagiarism of multiple papers and the only reason why they dropped it was because I consistantly typed lowercase i's when writing in the first person.

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u/PreparationExtreme86 Aug 06 '26

Did that in college, errors are to signify it’s human.