AI Content won’t Sound Human without Detection and Humanization
The weirdest way to use AI might come from Mayor “VIC” (stands for Virtual Integrated Citizen). Have you read about this yet? A mayoral candidate in Wyoming, Victor Miller, has developed an AI chatbot, VIC above, as a candidate for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming’s largest city. VIC, by the way, suggested his own name to Mr. Miller.
Tilting at Windmills
Miller’s quest arose from an encounter with government officials who incorrectly denied a public records request. After Miller appealed, the city accepted the request, but Miller wondered whether ChatGPT would have made a mistake in processing the request. Unstated is whether Miller felt that the city rejected the request due to bias that would not have been present in an AI. Regardless, Miller thought that an AI would not have made a mistake and took the time to develop a custom chatbot by feeding it city ordinances and public records laws. He noticed that the AI could quickly crunch this data to decide on locally regulated construction projects.
Purportedly, Miller decided that his custom AI would be able to make decisions at the local level free from bias and quickly filed on behalf of the AI to run it as a candidate for the mayoral election. Miller is campaigning for VIC, allowing VIC to hold meet and greets and take Q&A from human audiences.
VIC shows bias because of programming
VIC “speaks” in a male voice even though it is politically unaffiliated and non-human. This speaks to our previous blog post on bias in AI, which is an important reason to subscribe to AI Detector Pro. In this case, Miller has programmed VIC to “speak” in a male voice, suggesting that even though Miller launched this project to free local government from biases, his biases have crept into VIC, which seems to exist simply as a proxy for Miller himself. When an AI detection platform like AI Detector Pro provides you with an AI score, you’re forced to go in and evaluate the content more closely and edit out any potential bias.
Without an AI Detection Platform, you can’t make AI text sound human because AI has a specific tone
VIC’s “spoken” answers are as bad as AI writing is in essays: for instance, a local citizen asked VIC, “Hey, VIC, how would you balance the human factor?” VIC began his response with “Making decisions that affect many people requires a careful balance of data-driven insights and human empathy.” -(transcribed from original recording, Washington Post, August 19, 2024
VIC then lays out a SIX-POINT data analytics plan that includes “gather comprehensive data” and “iterative feedback.” – (-(transcribed from original recording, Washington Post, August 19, 2024)
We point this out because if you were to get an essay request from a professor on how AI could integrate the human factor and you turned in VIC’s six-point plan, you would be guilty of terrible writing and an inappropriate understanding of tone, ON TOP of an ethics violation. However, if you subscribe to AI Detector Pro you’ll get detection and automated humanization in one go!