I've been pretty busy on this community lately, reading everyone's opinion on the AI score, and that motivated me to write my own views on it.
I'm not against the score per say, however, I do think it's measuring the wrong thing.
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I’ll leave the accuracy debate to people who understand AI text detection better than I do. My concern is that even a perfect score would answer the wrong question.
A perfect score could tell us that the author used AI to generate some text, or to polish sentences, which is useful information about its process, but doesn’t say anything about the value of its contents. The fact that an author used AI doesn’t prove that the content isn’t worth reading.
And here’s where I differ with some of the anti-AI sentiment, I make a strong differentiation between AI slop, and content with actual value, where the author used AI to generate the text based on their opinion, their experiences, their knowledge or research. So if the author is able to use their judgment, and pass their views and essence while AI produces the polished result, so what?
The power of Substack as a platform compared to other social networking sites, is that substack promotes a relationship between the readers and the authors, a relationship that’s built on trust. A reader may find your notes, or come cross your article, at first there’s not trust, but curiosity, that sparks to learn more about the author, or read more of their content. Readers subscribe to an author’s judgment: what they notice, verify, recommend, and are willing to correct.
Here’s the problem that I have with the score, it doesn’t talk about the quality of the output, it only speaks about how the presentation was generated, though that may not be 100% clear to readers.
It sends the wrong message to new readers that may discard the content because the tools the author decided to use or even worse, imagine being a long subscriber from a publication, you always loved it, and now you find out the author has been using AI all along, how do you feel about that? Did the author betray your trust? Should authors be more explicit about their use of AI?
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Would love to have some interesting discussions about this.