I thought of sharing some issues that preoccupy me here, because of how active piefed development is. Btw thank you all for your hard work!

I have noticed that more and more articles are created with LLMs without disclosing it. So, it seems to me that if someone wants to avoid posting this sort of content, one needs to at least:

  • check how many articles the author posts per day in the specific site,
  • then if the author really exist and
  • finally copy-paste part of the text in a couple of ai-detector sites.

Initially, I thought of making a post for a feature request like the one that detects AI generated images, but for text. But I can't because if I got this right, the ai-detectors may flag an article as ai generated when the author is not a native english speaker [1].

Of course the feature that allows us to label ai-generated content ourselves before posting it is very important. In a way my questions are related to something else: what to do before that. As briefly as I can, here they are:

  • does the process mentioned above seem adequate?
  • if yes, what else can someone do to check an article before posting, and are there any alternatives/variations to this process?
  • if no, what would you suggest?
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[–] 2 points 1 week ago

I think your right on the idea of the posts per days etc, maybe if you did have a feature something like a 'seems like AI' button that gets a high rate of common hits; it could help.

I am noticing a lot of what i can only call 'noise' posts where 10 average posts (usually a video or link hit and run) and then a specific post littered through...and that could be a political one, or a ad. I feel like I spend a lot of time inspecting users for authenticity lately...I never used to before. I often question why is this person posting? I get that we need posters and engagement but so much of it seems 'for the sake' of it. Maybe i am just too cynical.

I am on Piefed so sometimes I see an AI label which absolutely helps, but I know its not on all platforms. And i guess that label relies on a truthful actor.

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