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Barrin92 • today at 1:41 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

>There's been literal papers proving average people cannot tell reliably.

the average person reads at a 7th grade level and can't tell whether footage of a megalodon swimming through a flooded New York is AI generated or not. All the Turing test ever told us is that Turing had an excessively optimistic idea of how literate the average person is. I have a conversation like this every time a new version comes out and they always go the same way:

https://pastebin.com/NjfCLSXa


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artisin • today at 2:49 AM

this gave me a good chuckle.

> Oh, right. Aramaic. My mistake—I somehow read "Italian" and didn't question it. > I can try, although my Aramaic is very rusty. Do you mean Classical/Syriac Aramaic, or one of the modern varieties?

kelseyfrog • today at 3:58 AM

We have to remember that one of these average people is also participating as a player; the bar for AI is also that low.