A Warning About AI “Writers” on SpaceHey

While scrolling through blogs I tend to click on ones that seem like informational essays covering a range of literary or social topics, because I love to see it!! But I have noticed a disturbing trend, a lot of these longer essay posts are completely, 100 % AI generated. You can tell from the text straight away most of the time, if you’ve read a few AI generated texts you’ll recognize the signs. I took the liberty to run several of these essays from different accounts through GPTZero (the only AI detector that correctly identifies AI generated text with almost 100% accuracy![source] and they all came back with a 98-100% likelihood of being entirely AI written. 

Now, it is mostly an ethical question, isn't it? But please let me entertain it. This is a major disappointment for a small-scale, retro blogging site like SpaceHey. People who enjoy the authenticity and retro-feel of this site should not be muddying up its content with unreliable AI generated slop. Another trend on these essay posts is that the comments are always turned off. Because the poster knows people who can identify AI content would call them out on it, and they wouldn't be able to fool any more people into thinking they wrote the content themselves.

I found one profile who had posted a really good essay that scored a 0% on the AI detector, and it was really personal and funny! But another essay they had posted just a couple days after was vastly different: impersonal, vague sources, and overall just a textbook example of a chatgpt essay. Which is really sad, because the poster showed through the first example that they were actually a good writer!! Several other profiles are completely saturated with exclusively AI generated content though. 

Now, of course AI use in modern society is unavoidable at this point. But can we please, PLEASE disclose AI use if posting something that we claim is our own?? Especially on a personal blogging website? To anyone who enjoys reading essays here, if you have the slightest inkling that something looks AI generated, run it through a detector. Information online should be reliable, and let's work together to try to keep it that way. 

- Minna