Artificial intelligence, democracy and elections

While concerns about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in politics and its impact on the democratic process are not new, they have been provoked further by the rise of general-purpose AI and generative AI, which represents a technological breakthrough.

September 19, 2023
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Detecting AI-Generated Text

There are no reliable ways to distinguish text written by a human from text written by an large language model. OpenAI writes:

Do AI detectors work?

  • In short, no. While some (including OpenAI) have released tools that purport to detect AI-generated content, none of these have proven to reliably distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated content.
  • Additionally, ChatGPT has no “knowledge” of what content could be AI-generated. It will sometimes make up responses to questions like “did you write this [essay]?” or “could this have been written by AI?” These responses are random and have no basis in fact.
September 19, 2023
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