Being given a 100% AI generated score for your own mental work hurts
Being given a 100% AI generated score for your own mental work hurts. It also hurts because the result is presented as absolute and undeniable, with no path for appeal or inspection. A decision presented as a black-box score with no insights revealed how the score has been computed or the specific reasons/patterns which triggered "detection" to begin with[1]... A score produced by a third party which inserted itself as middleman in the communication flow between writers and readers and claims authority and arbiter status over deciding what is slop and what is not. Another layer of statistical machine learning to detect patterns/anomalies of statistical means of language generation... In this specific case, I don't really care too much what these tools say. I know what I wrote and rewrote, over hours, and to the best of my ability (as non-native English speaker). The myth of computational objectivity prevails. For decades it was about blind belief in algorithms, now shifted to AI models. The wider public and most decision makers neither seem to understand the difference, nor do they care about the inherent dangers. Pragmatism at all costs. The genie is out and can't be put back. The problems (if acknowledged at all) are always treated as temporary minor hurdles rather than fundamental systemic issues. It's upsetting how Little Britain's "Computer Says No"[2] attitude and blind outsourcing of black-box classification and decision-making to machines has already been so extrem
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| Original publisher | Mastodon Glitch Edition |
| Canonical URL | https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/117031237659514917 |
| Publication time | Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:33:13 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-07T05:45:41.615Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-07T05:45:41.615Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher description |
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| Summary | None yet |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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