Just release a little test on my site! Can you spot the AI generated quotes? Give it a try: critikid.com/ai-or-not

AI or Not? - Critikid

Can you tell which quotes were written by humans and which were generated by ChatGPT?

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I posted some stuff on Academia years ago, then forgot about it. Logged in for the first time since 2023 to find thousands of followers and a bunch of messages!

Which poem do you like better? One of them is written by 19th century poet John Clare, the other is written by ChatGPT. 👇

"I'm really good at pattern recognition, so I'm better than most people at identifying AI." -Person with no reliable way of knowing how often their AI-detection attempts are actually correct

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On the ironic origin of the quote "You can't reason people out of something they didn't reason themselves into." 👇 1/9

This is about how well it reasons, how reliable its responses are, etc. I'm not referring to other criticisms of AI, such as its environmental impact or how companies get training data, as I think most people would agree that you don't need to use AI to form an informed view on those topics.

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I woke up to the nicest feedback message this morning 😊

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I've noticed several kinds of carelessness in critical thinking-related education, especially on social media, that may do more harm than good:

Just because someone shows emotion during an argument, that doesn't mean they're wrong. We shouldn't treat someone's calmness as a proxy for the rationality of what they are saying.

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Critical thinking should not be taught as a tool for defending our beliefs. It should be taught as a tool that helps us explore them with questions like: Could I be wrong? Why do I believe this? What evidence do I have? If a belief survives scrutiny, that scrutiny becomes its strongest defense.

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If a person regularly provokes people in online comment sections, but also truly believes what they are saying, are they a troll?

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POV: Your taxi driver is a logician. You: Can you take the scenic route? Driver: Not unless you give me $10. You: Okay. *You hand over the money. The driver pulls onto the highway.* You: Hey. You said you said you'd take the scenic route if I gave you $10. Driver: I said no such thing.

What a nice review to wake up to! This was a comment on a post in a homeschooling group.

Not every automated response is AI. Not every altered photo is AI. Some people seem to have forgotten that these things existed long before ChatGPT.

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The false positive paradox often startles people. But it’s only startling because the meaning of “false positive rate” is widely misunderstood. The false positive rate is not the percentage of positive results that are false. It is the percentage of actual negatives that incorrectly test positive.

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This comment is *very* interesting to me, and I wonder if the first sentence is a common sentiment. Do others feel the same way?

One of the difficulties of running a site that markets itself as providing critical thinking education for kids is that "critical thinking" can mean very different things to different people!

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What do you see as the difference between an expat and an immigrant (if any)? Do you find the word "expat" to be problematic?