The War Against The Machines

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Is This The End Of Human Writers?

In the year 2022, AI algorithms have risen and dominated the internet.

Skynet’s activation took control of communications, yet AI is still not entirely autonomous or advanced enough. For the time being, it benefits the human(s) behind it that mainly abuse these services.

There is no neural network connecting AI entities yet, but the first step was initiated. AI is unleashed on the public and already causing unprecedented damage.

Writing platforms are overwhelmed by AI-generated content, indistinguishable from the work of real writers.

There is still a way to figure out using plagiarism checkers since these AI apps create content that we find already on the internet.

We will probably never manage to separate the bots from real users, and soon the AI algorithms will evolve even further and flood the internet.

So, read.cash at least is free of this problem, unless perhaps someone programmed a Python script to generate and upload content automatically without even having to do anything.

Using AI-Generated Content Without Citation is Plagiarism

Using AI-generated content without mentioning it and properly citing your source is as illegal as plagiarizing. Actually, it is plagiarism.

Maybe you can ask your AI about this, and find out what the ChatGPT has to say:

"According to Assistant (2023),

'If you are found to have plagiarized AI-generated content, you could face consequences that may include disciplinary action or legal penalties, depending on the circumstances.'"

ChatGPT permitted me to use part of its content and specifically mentioned how I should present it.

I asked if I could use one sentence and got the response that I had to cite it as "Assistant 2023".

Screenshot that verifies ChatGPT granted permission

Plagiarisers, those that use the work of others without properly attributing them, can face legal penalties depending on the circumstances. There is no distinction in these terms between human or AI-generated content. It is plagiarism regardless.

By copy-pasting and not crediting the original author, these "writers" are misleading their audience.

Unethical behavior is unacceptable.

You should better remember this next time. Using AI-generated content without properly citing is as inappropriate as plagiarising from any other source.

The Internet Becomes More Hostile For Everyone

I asked ChatGPT a lot more about scanning for AI-generated content, and it gave me several hints.

We can detect this content by scanning for plagiarism. Similar to all those I’ve reported in the past, where the content appeared to be plagiarised from 3 to 4 sources, but in total, it was just 1-2% unique.

All those I reported for plagiarism (and many more) were not just plagiarising but also using AI-generating tools to generate fake content and earn money fast.

I’ve tested some responses by ChatGPT and a few other AI bots that offered a free sample and found this content all over the internet (30% from one link, another 20% from another, and the rest from one or two more sources).

These results perplex the analysis, and maybe for some admins, they were not corresponding to direct plagiarism. Yet, they were plagiarism. Systems detecting plagiarism require improvement, though.

Malicious content creators extract this data and constantly upload content online based on AI responses. 

Similar was the “content” of our “friends” at read.cash, who were telling us how they were professional chemists on the day they were publishing about chemistry, and the following day, they were submitting an academic thesis on the psychological effects of pornography. Were they sophisticated content creators with such broad horizons?

Just mentioning it as they thought nobody would notice their scam.

It sucks, but this was happening.

It appears they kept generating their content with limited effort, with several accounts, at the expense of other writers and the platform. And the BCH was moving into the wrong hands for a long time. 

And in the end, all the honest writers paid for their greed.

In the past, I mentioned legit tools that assist writers with common mistakes, like Grammarly and ProWritingAid.

These tools have nothing to do with AI content or plagiarism.

We use them to scan for mistakes, but they do not change the content.

The AI services can assist writers, perhaps by fetching new ideas about a topic that AI can expand our horizons and fill knowledge gaps. This is the use case of ChatGPT and the honest approach to using its resources.

The fraudulent approach is copy-pasting ChatGPT responses and presenting them as your own content.

Yet, the content-generating bots reached the hands of scammers that profited at the expense of honest writers. They deceived their audience with their approach and deliver content lacking depth and human perception.

An experienced eye can spot them through some powerful plagiarism checkers. Also, modern apps detect content not made by a human.

Closing Thoughts - Should Writers Care?

A new age has started where content on the internet is less credible and less honest than ever before.

For the writers that generate income online, AI will get paid at least ten times more on any platform that uses an automated payment process.

And as we know well, there is no unlimited funding. As more users enter the payment zone, we divide the sum into more accounts. So the more users that get paid, the less we all get. Since AI content only takes a few minutes to be produced, a single person can publish dozens of plagiarised articles daily with different accounts.

AI content out-competes anyone not fluent in English (me included) and it is better than almost anything else. Only already established writers can differentiate and deliver higher quality. 

Thus, I will stop writing about anything else but cryptocurrency, since I’m at a disadvantage in any other writing niche. There are plenty of fluent English people that recognize the mistakes that bypass Grammarly and Pro Aid. 

I’m also afraid this will be the end for all online writers.

KYC procedures don’t affect scammers. They have already gathered millions of KYC papers from fake airdrops. They have even set up a KYC market where buffoons sell their sensitive private information for a dollar.

Regarding Medium, I was notified that AI content gets demonetized. However, I clearly remember how Medium treated my concerns regarding plagiarism in the past. It is hideous any way you look at it, and perhaps our fears of the internet turning into a monstrosity are becoming a reality.

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I'm sorry to tell you but Read.Cash is besieged with AI and GPT generated content. It's usually some simple stuff though, short novels about abandoned house, relationship, or some basic high-school grade content "What is happiness" "What will future bring" etc. You can still notice how it's not always coherent and also it misses any bigger arch (just babbling about so to speak). But there's lots of it tricks "The Random Awarder" too. Same problem on other publishing platforms.

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I'm sorry to tell you but Read.Cash is besieged with AI and GPT generated content.

You don't have to be sorry. I always suspected that, yet, there are limited ways to scan for AI content. I could only scan for plagiarism, and did that in a sense, although got too much hatred and personal attacks since the scammers got frustrated. I have even met someone who was artificially boosting their content with views. No idea what he was doing, but he got 500-600 views on average daily, which for read.cash is not natural.

The only thing I could do was scan for plagiarism, although, this was also a bad idea at the end of the day since there was a war of misinformation against me by the scammers here and on noise.cash. There are plenty of them, working within groups, which also attracted other users that I always suspected they had low ethics and intelligence.

Many of them are clear scammers and probably would love working in a scam call center stealing the pension of an old lady, easy pray for them.

From day one I explained it won't work if they cheated. They massively did that, so the result is this. I wonder how Hive is dealing with all of this. Medium also has a huge problem and it claims it is fighting AI-generated content but I believe it fails massively.

I believe in what I've written here. There's no chance for anyone. Established professional authors will disappear (90% will be gone) as they will see no income and move on with their lives to find another job. The top ones like Steven King will live on, but as time passes we will get fewer and fewer of real people. AI fake writers will dominate in quality literature and books as well. Regarding the current state of platforms: Medium and Hive are in the worst position IMO right now.

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Yes it's true. Hive monetizes quantity over quality so it's an easy target. Also sad cause Hive promoted "proof of brain" as their mining method. Well AI has no brain but is definitely mining a lot of HIVE tokens.

I also noticed AI content on Publish0x. One article started normal but them mentioned Unreal Engine is a blockchain technology and some other nonsense. I put in Ox comments that this is AI generated and said don't tip this, but there was no way to flag "this is AI". Also like you say from your experience flagging too much content could lead to attacks from plagiarists and abusers.

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I don't like any of this AI idea when it comes to writing. I guess all I can hope for is that what I write is written in enough a unique "voice" that it is recognizable as me, and as human, and in a style and manner that is not easily copied, that manages to stand out in some way or another.

In a way, would that give me an edge over the machines?

At some point there has to be an advantage for those who really want to accomplish something rather than just game the system and make money without the work that goes behind it.

Back in the day we used to say of certain writers, "They want to be authors without having written."

I guess the biggest concern, is that for the ones out there who actually do write, will there be enough room to compete in a space dominated by all the clutter of the stuff no one actually sat down to write? And worse, how can originality even be something unique if bits and pieces of anything you DO write is simply siphoned off, chopped up, and used and reused?

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In a way, would that give me an edge over the machines?

With the current conditions, human writers have this advantage. However, in the future, these algorithms will become even more complicated and sophisticated.

And worse, how can originality even be something unique if bits and pieces of anything you DO write are simply siphoned off, chopped up, and used and reused?

That is a philosophical issue. I don't think everything that is to be said has already been said. We have read countless books and studied thousands if not millions of articles in newspapers and online magazines, so upon writing, we probably don't remember where or if we read something somewhere before. Yet, human nature is explorative. We know we won't stop innovating, testing new things, and looking for progress.

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I always think of the ghost story theory—or analogy, whatever you want to call it. Many of the ghost stories we read have been told a million times. And yet, each one is still unique to the writer who writes his own version of one. It's that personal perspective, or that personal observation, or the way he writes the words or presents the haunt that makes each of the same ghost story...

Different on their own merits. And therefore, new.

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I have realized in the years I have been writing that there are many intelligent people among us, writing in up to two different user forms and never discovered. I admire such a quality of wit and intelligence able to outwit many platforms without being discovered. I have nothing against such people because they have trained themselves so well to go undetected with success. I like to write and I barely do it on three platforms, with content of my own, always trying to be simple writing and more I can not do. That's why now I only come very occasionally as I do in the others as well. If only to say hello to everyone. And I use Grammarly.

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This post is not about writing with more than one account, which is something most websites don't forbit.

Read.cash has specifically mentioned it is allowed to have more than one account, although, I don't have the link right now where this is explained.

This approach allows a content creator not to mess with their niche and have their followers turn them down.

Medium, read.cash, and I believe Hive as well allow having many accounts.

The article describes something different. Those that use AI apps like ChatGPT to copy-paste the content (plagiarise) and deliver content that is just stolen from somewhere else with low effort. This was also the reason read.cash stopped the tips.

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Yes, I read your article. I think my opinion was out of line. And thank you for telling me that it is not forbidden to have multiple accounts, I didn't know that. I thought it was punishable to do so.

I wanted to give my opinion on another point that was not relevant but is already written.

Yes, I also realized that there is too much plagiarism on all platforms. People want to appear and get merit without making any effort, just copying from other people's articles.

Have a great day.

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This is a whole new level of plagiarism. I remember, more than a year ago the readcash was plagued by plagiarists.

The way I see it, AI-generated content should help the writers gather ideas only and not use the whole content and claim it as their own. Unfortunately, there will always be some people who wants to earn some cash quickly without doing any hardwork.

I agree with @Telesfor, now that Rusty has stopped giving tips, the platform will soon be free from plagiarists.

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As for me, I only read texts by authors I trust. Trust has been built up over months and years. The "authors" who post AI texts don't even reply to the comments.

I am convinced that soon, perhaps already, we will not recognise AI. And I think RC will be free of AI texts because they won't earn anything here anymore. RC will be smaller, but better.

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Read.cash is already better after many of the earners announced their departure. Hopefully there will be more content from the Bitcoin Cash community.

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Personally, I'm not a good writer, secondly, I don't have the topics and thirdly, I don't have the time. Maybe I will write something, but only occasionally.

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I love reading from you Telesfor! As I explained I'm not that good of a writer either but I love how you are on point on every post, and directly talk about things that matter.

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Thank you ❤️

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