HACKER Q&A
📣 jacquesm

Is there a browser plugin that will fade AI generated text to gray?


I've seen some that will annotate text but nothing that will fade AI generated text out to the background color depending on the level of confidence that a text was human written or AI written. Does anybody have something like this or have it in the works? If so is it local or does it require some service?


  👤 WheelsAtLarge Accepted Answer ✓
Are there really apps than can distinguish AI vs human? I suspect that at best they can only id a small fraction of what is being written.

👤 JacobAldridge
Nice concept Jacques.

I’m reminded of the (apocryphal?) story, about the Ranger at Yellowstone National Park who was asked why they didn’t just make all the bins bear-proof. His answer:

“There is a surprisingly large overlap between the smartest bears and the least smart humans.”

From everything I’ve read, outside those models that have plagiarism seeds that their own tools can detect, there is a surprisingly large overlap between the most humanlike AI and the most robotlike human writing.


👤 JoeyBananas
There is no circumstance where I'd want text on a website to be faded out to the background color.

Fading text is a highly ill-advised channel for conveying information