Boaz Barak, Harvard professor and OpenAI alignment researcher, says an AI detector flagged his daughter's organic essay as 100% machine-generated

children unknowingly absorbing AI-isms will make AI detection completely irrelevant sooner or later

People didn't believe my kid wrote it herself so she made this visual. She says: "The amount of AI-isms I put here isn’t a coincidence — it took effort, skill, and thought."

@deltaVee42 Actually it's the opposite. I am trying hard to encourage her to use AI. I basically forced her to install codex on her linux machine, but she refuses to use it, neither when she researches topics (she loves Wikipedia rabbit holes) nor for programming.

@boazbaraktcs that’s not ur daughter that’s a stochastic parrot

My 13 year old daughter is trying to write an article that sounds like AI. I was sure she'd fail because she never uses chat or coding agents, but apparently she absorbed enough AI-ism...

Interesting. Of all the silly things that rebellious teenagers do, refusing to use AI is probably one of the least harmful. She'll learn more in school than the students cheating using AI. So maybe don't worry about this? If you stop pushing her she may eventually change her mind?

@boazbaraktcs "she never uses chat or coding agents" - are you sure that's true? Or is she supposed to not use AI but actually uses AI without your knowledge?

@boazbaraktcs the AI-isms are ambient now. kids absorb them like secondhand smoke.

@boazbaraktcs Who are you trying to fool though, you can see the AI generated emdash into the text that your "daughter" supposedly wrote, lmao.. Try harder next time.

@boazbaraktcs if i were a kid forced to do hand-written exams because of AI i would write all my stuff in this AI lingo

@boazbaraktcs Are you saying she feels the AGI?

@boazbaraktcs vocab's the easy part, the giveaway is the rhythm, those rule-of-three lists and the constant 'this isn't X, it's Y' beat. that stuff leaks into everything now even if you never open the tools.

@boazbaraktcs Your daughter is a legend

@boazbaraktcs she even wrote the triads 😂

@suchenzang This is extremely intentional, I doubt many people sound like this unintentionally.

@findmyke She just googled em dash. To be clear, testing this in pangram was my idea, she just did this for her own amusement.

@boazbaraktcs @findmyke If you're on a phone it's even easier! Idk why people make this out like it's some colossal task

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@boazbaraktcs my 2 year old son did the same thing whilst he was in his mothers womb a couple of 'ears ago

@boazbaraktcs What a fun assignment