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My main gripe, though, is with the oversight (or lack thereof) in the peer review process. If a journal can’t even spot AI-generated images, it raises red flags about the entire paper’s credibility, regardless of the content’s origin.

The crux of the matter is the robustness of the review process

The pace at which AI can generate bullshit not only currently vastly outstrips the ability for individual humans to vet it, but is actually accelerating. We cannot manually solve this by saying “people just need to catch it.” Look at YT with CSAM or other federal violations - they literally can’t keep up with the content coming in despite having armies of people (with insane turnover I might add) trying to do it. So the bar has been changed from “you can’t have any of this stuff” to “you must put in reasonable effort to minimize it,” because we’ve simply accepted it can’t be done with humans - and that’s with the assistance of their current algorithms constantly scouring their content for red flags. Bear in mind this is an international, massive company with resources these journals can’t even dream of and almost all this content has been generated and uploaded by individual people.

These people I’m sure are perfectly capable of catching AI generated nonsense most of the time. But as the content gets more sophisticated and voluminous, the problem is only going to get worse. Stuff is going to get through. So we are at a crossroads where we throw up our hands and say “well there’s not much we can do, good luck separating the wheat from the chaff,” or we get creative. And this isn’t just in academic journals either. This is crossing into more and more industries, in particular if it requires writing. Someone(s) is throwing money and resources at getting AI to do it faster and cheaper than people can.

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I hate this logic. If we aren’t supposed to defederate, then we shouldn’t have the option. It is a core feature of the fediverse. It can and should be used.

All of y’all who talk like this need to go back to Reddit. This is not Reddit. We need to use the tools available to us to keep out bad actors. Build up your own instance if you want to let every asshole through the door.

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I am watching instances on the fediverse once again fall into the trappings of giving too much benefit of the doubt/giving too much commitment to some flawed notion of “free speech” and all I can think about is how that is 90% of what ruins any quality community that starts gaining traction online.

If this is the road we’re going down we may as well leave now. I’m tired of seeing this happen over and over again. 

Admins: y’all need to be more liberal with the ban hammer. You also need to defederate from communities that are so blatantly toxic and fucked up. There are enough people out there now that we don’t need to be hanging out with literally any person who expresses interest in the fediverse. It’s time to exercise a little bit of discernment. Your generosity will be used against you like a cudgel. Make no mistake.

Defederate. It’s the right call.