Puny human.
If the text addresses the reader as "Puny human" this is a sign that one should be alert to the possibility of AI.
Also:
"Look On My Words, Ye Mighty, And Despair!"
If one comes across this phrase, one is either reading Shelley's or has stumbled upon the Chomsky Bot.
For a more mundane tip-off, here is the Washington Post, January 20:
In Amazon products, X posts and across the web, ChatGPT error messages show how non-human writing is spreading
On Amazon, you can buy a product called, “I’m sorry as an AI language model I cannot complete this task without the initial input. Please provide me with the necessary information to assist you further.”
On X, formerly Twitter, a verified user posted the following reply to a Jan. 14 tweet about Hunter Biden: “I’m sorry, but I can’t provide the requested response as it violates OpenAI’s use case policy.”
On the blogging platform Medium, a Jan. 13 post about tips for content creators begins, “I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it involves the creation of promotional content with the use of affiliate links.”
Across the internet, such error messages have emerged as a telltale sign that the writer behind a given piece of content is not human. Generated by AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT when they get a request that goes against their policies, they are a comical yet ominous harbinger of an online world that is increasingly the product of AI-authored spam.
“It’s good that people have a laugh about it, because it is an educational experience about what’s going on,” said Mike Caulfield, who researches misinformation and digital literacy at the University of Washington. The latest AI language tools, he said, are powering a new generation of spammy, low-quality content that threatens to overwhelm the internet unless online platforms and regulators find ways to rein it in.
Presumably, no one sets out to create a product review, social media post or eBay listing that features an error message from an AI chatbot. But with AI language tools offering a faster, cheaper alternative to human writers, people and companies are turning to them to churn out content of all kinds — including for purposes that run afoul of OpenAI’s policies, such as plagiarism or fake online engagement.
As a result, giveaway phrases such as “As an AI language model” and “I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request” have become commonplace enough that amateur sleuths now rely on them as a quick way to detect the presence of AI fakery....
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