Fake Stories and AI
Hey, folks! Lately there's been a blizzard of supposedly true inspirational stories on FB. You've seen them. A school librarian started a fund for kids who couldn't afford lunch and one of the kids was so boosted, she went on to become a children's oncologist, who credits the librarian for every life she saves, or a woman talks to a homeless man, finds out he had almost finished his degree in engineering but had to drop out because his kitten died, so the woman helps the man finish college, and now the homeless guy has a solid job and a wife and three kids and another kitten.
THESE ARE FAKE. FAKE FAKE FAKE. They're written by AI, and they're as fake as Republican thoughts and prayers.
You can tell if you look closely. There's always a lack of specific detail. The people have only a first name, or no name at all. No town, no city, no state is mentioned. And if you input the few details the story has into a search engine, you come up with nothing, even though these stories are something any news agency would leap on if they were real.
These stories are nasty-minded virtue-signaling. They create implausible, even impossible, scenarios and present them as true to send a holier-than-thou message. They remind me of those fake folded $50 bills some people leave as tips, where you open the bill and discover it's just a religious tract with some snotty "the real tip is in Christ" message or something.
They also cheapen REAL inspirational events. The flood of fake stories stampedes over the real ones, and we miss true inspirational stories as a result.
If you still aren't sure a story is real, go here: https://app.gptzero.me/
It's an AI detector. Paste a bunch of text into it, and it'll tell you how likely the text was AI generated, or even if it was human generated but edited by AI. You can also try https://quillbot.com/ai-content-detector and https://writehuman.ai/ai-detector . I used these when I was teaching to prove an AI wrote student work.
Please don't post these stories. Or at least check for AI before posting them. We're begging you.
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THESE ARE FAKE. FAKE FAKE FAKE. They're written by AI, and they're as fake as Republican thoughts and prayers.
You can tell if you look closely. There's always a lack of specific detail. The people have only a first name, or no name at all. No town, no city, no state is mentioned. And if you input the few details the story has into a search engine, you come up with nothing, even though these stories are something any news agency would leap on if they were real.
These stories are nasty-minded virtue-signaling. They create implausible, even impossible, scenarios and present them as true to send a holier-than-thou message. They remind me of those fake folded $50 bills some people leave as tips, where you open the bill and discover it's just a religious tract with some snotty "the real tip is in Christ" message or something.
They also cheapen REAL inspirational events. The flood of fake stories stampedes over the real ones, and we miss true inspirational stories as a result.
If you still aren't sure a story is real, go here: https://app.gptzero.me/
It's an AI detector. Paste a bunch of text into it, and it'll tell you how likely the text was AI generated, or even if it was human generated but edited by AI. You can also try https://quillbot.com/ai-content-detector and https://writehuman.ai/ai-detector . I used these when I was teaching to prove an AI wrote student work.
Please don't post these stories. Or at least check for AI before posting them. We're begging you.
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