"A human generally can't tell AI generated text from human generated text"

Go read some of the grad student Facebook groups. Folks who regularly see AI text and humon-authored text can tell those apart fairly reliably. TFS talks about how humans agreed with the AI detector about AI-assisted texts being low quality.

When I did editor training, a part of that was to read and edit for *flow*, which gen AI does not currently understand.

> I will admit that I'm getting a bit of an AI-vibe from your post.

Thank you for the personal attack. Are you wishing to end this conversation?

For this workflow, it just needs to be accurate enough to flag a manuscript or reviewer comments for human review. If the authors disclosed and it was AI assisted, great. If not, question what else the authors or reviews might be dishonest about.

The detection AI concurs reasonably with human judgement: "The study also found that submissions in 2025 with abstracts flagged by Pangram were twice as likely to be rejected by journal editors before peer review as were those not flagged by the tool. The desk-rejection rate was higher for manuscripts flagged for AI-generated text in the methods section."

A humon typist or graduate student typing, incorporating edits, and otherwise revising a manuscript learns and improves both themselves and the manuscript by discerning the meanings that were or were not intended with each iteration of writing one paper or across a series of papers, even when using winword's grammar and spelling checkers, Grammarly and similar technical tools. There are AIs that can learn from a user's revisions. Using those would be more helpful than asking AI to generate text and then revising.

The summary also notes that AI detection was higher among papers from countries where English is not a native language. In the previous process where a manuscript by non-English native authors would be sent out to an English language editor as part of the drafting process, the editor would provide helpful questions about meaning, ambiguities, consistency of style, logical flow, etc. AI tools are starting to do that.

For reviews, a human reviewer, native language user or not, will react to unusual spelling and grammar or errors of meaning, and methods/claims that are not plausibly within the discipline, whereas many AIs will parse over all that to infer meaning statistically. AI reviews may also draw connections among concepts that may exist across literatures but do not exist in practice, and/or hallucinate suggested citations about *God cremating the Earth in seven days*, etc.

Corals are also not immune to evolution. The heat tolerant mutants will go on just fine.

Despite very credible allegations, Biden was never convicted of raping raping Tara Reade. And his daughter's recollections of him inappropriately showering with her outlasted any statute of limitations. But I see where you're going, there. The rest is a good fit, right down to the weaponized government, for sure. The plot twist is that the real kingpins are behind the scenes, using him as a puppet. It's good villain story line material fresh from real life.

One small step towards an iPad being required to restore an iPhone.

What "Decades old C" implementation of AV1 decoding?

AV1 was released in March 2018.

...an article worth considering from Princeton University's Zeynep Tufekci:

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.

Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology â" research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world â" no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.

So the Wuhan research was totally safe, and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission â" it certainly seemed like consensus.

We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratoryâ(TM)s research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions might have been terrifyingly lax.

Full article

Photographers are already using their software of choice to work with raw formats. Often, that software takes advantage of specific hardware and software features of the $$,$$$ to $$$,$$$ cameras and associated equipment that created the raw files. Staying within the family for software to work with digital negatives and images is not a big jump when someone has already invested in a single platform of camera bodies and lenses, and most photography software that is worth using in the long run provides timely enough support for new camera models. When professional photographers' time is worth $$$ to $,$$$ per hour, the fact that the software or standard is open source might not matter to their teams' workflows or bottom lines.

I've installed and supported GIMP for dozens of groups in the past, but I've stopped doing that because kids who learn that software gain significantly less advantage for employment and further education compared to learning more popular desktop and cloud based image editors.

The "current crisis" is manufactured and amplified externally. Nobody is doxxing Tesla owners with maps using Molotov cocktails as map cursors or burning lots full of vehicles in for service in some way that is a function of whether Musk is personally present on the factory floor vs doing something else he thinks is vital to our economic survival. All of it is ginned up hate based on the politics surrounding the pruning of vast left slush funds and debt-funded waste that has to go away. That's an entire industry with vested interests, and acting against it certainly brings out the coordinated hate, attacks on stock value, media smearing, and of course thousands of people who now say he's a nazi though they can't actually articulate why they think that.

No, him being "on the factory floor" or off it doesn't precipitate some "current crisis," except in the sense that entrenched interests currently having their oxen gored by drying up things like the NGO money laundering industry are doing their best to try to wreck the company to make a point.

So the people who made it should have been earning minimum wage, is that your point? Spread that dollar amount across five and half yeads and even modest team of people and their overhead, and they're making middle five figures after taxes. Is that a lot, to you?

It took five and a half years to make it. So, in perhaps over-simplified terms, that's ~$670k year working on it. Let's say you had six people working on the project, and had NO overhead at all beyond their personal income while making it. That's roughly $100k per person before they paid taxes, which is either pretty good or not very good at all, depending on where you live and how. But one supposes they also had some overhead. This wasn't done on their kids' laptops at night. There was music to compose, audio to record and design, and a lot more.

So, yeah. "Just" 3.7M is a fair characterization.

Programming and the required design skills feels like an art to me, so I would advocate for theory and practice being taught together in the same way that learning music theory doesn't make a person capable of playing a piano. But I may be an exception.

Around the time of the last *dinosaurs mating*, the debate was whether churning out compsci grads who knew how to use C / C++ was sufficient, or if they needed to learn how to program in C / C++ and other languages. Some folks thought that the compiler-writing course should no longer be mandatory because *no one needs to know assembly anymore in the real world.*

I wonder if the next debate will be about whether it's necessary for students to learn how to read documentation, or whether knowing how to ask gen AI a question or use code completion is sufficient.

No, we just voted the tyrannical little statists out of office. And the people you're now laughably calling Fascists are busy exposing and tearing down the very tools that an actual Fascist government would (and did) use. Fascists don't cut off the cash supply to money-laundering NGOs that are making their pet politicians richer and more personally powerful. Fascists don't work to shut down the mechanisms by which the government can censor your social media use. Your case of projection is pretty impressive.

You know what Fascists do? They try to hide the money movement that keeps their circle of power functioning. Our little lefty statists are busy shrieking that the lead of the executive branch shouldn't be allowed to see the records showing where the executive branch has been writing checks. Gee, what would they be hiding? Their little circle of industrial-scale grift and waste and abuse is getting exposed, and they're furious about it. And here you are having their backs. Pretty ugly. Do you live off of dubious international grant kickbacks or something?

> It won't. People run Windows 7 do it for one of those reasons:

- the machine and its particular version of software are part of a bigger validated system or configuration which has an expensive / difficult certification for the industry, utility, health, marine, aerospace, etc. environment.

WINE will not replace Windows in such environments any more than SD cards will replace floppy disk drives on aircraft which are already flying.

GPTs are a logical step combining spell check, grammar check, autocompletion, search engines, writing notebooks, word processors, and encyclopedias, among other scholarly tools. They can help to autocomplete *some* ideas that one already has, but the user still needs to already know information to create a useful prompt, and how to adapt the resulting text into the real world.