Have you noticed comments on your blog written by AI? Or have you recognised AI writing?
Melody Jacob is one such person but I can't get my head around her purpose. While her blog has advertising, it does seem like a personal blog. I am sure the comments she sprinkles around on blogs are AI written, and perhaps her posts are too.
Those of you who are quite literate can probably pick AI writing...at the moment. It will get better, until we won't know the difference between what the human brain writes and what AI writes, and it won't take very long for this to happen.
Evan Edinger is a very accomplished YouTuber. I am not so keen on his rapid fire delivery but it is clear he puts a lot of work into his clips. He's from New Joisy (😉@Boud) Jersey but has lived in England for many years.
I would not normally watch a fifteen minute clip about something like AI, but this was well worth my while, and it may be for you too to get a better understanding of AI writing.
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If you are right, I hadn't picked up on Melody Jacob's comments being AI. What makes you so sure?
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, it is everywhere. Sadly I cannot view that clip (no sound at the moment).
Marcus, a few comments below, explains it.
DeleteEC, the style of the writing and nothing else about her added up either.
DeleteI have ignored that ai persona from the start. It's really obvious. Every little point responded to with positives, no questions, no indication of a thought process. I went once to her blog and found it totally commercial. Probably in it for clicks. After I moderated her a time or two her algorithm left me alone.
ReplyDeleteI have to check on that video. Someone who talks faster than I do??
Oh wise one. Well done. Btw, did Edith in All in the Family have a classic NJ accent?
DeleteI think Edith sounded more Queens to me, borough of New York.
DeleteI can't imagine that my comments would ever be mistaken for AI. Unless AI is required to spout drivel?
ReplyDeleteI know JayCee, you don't dishonour me by posting drivel comments.
DeleteI did not realize that.
ReplyDeleteI use AI for research. And I've found it to be helpful. And I'll occasionally use it for a non-fiction post as a guest blogger, but my fiction is all my own:)
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Sandra, we do need to be alert to such writing. I have little idea about using AI. I can't find a reason to learn anything about it.
DeleteYeah, she is being around. Entering her site gave me a scam site warning by my browser
ReplyDeleteOk Roentare. I've not received such a warning.
DeleteI think my comments are clearly NOT AI because, well, sometimes I move too fast for Spell Check to check me!
ReplyDeleteNot that I've noticed Bob. Your comments always seem genuine anyway.
DeleteIt's approaching midnight here in Yorkshire and I haven't got the stamina to start investigating AI writing right now. Why can't that American lad slow down and talk at a pace that ordinary humans can grasp? Is he high on drugs like Elon Musk? Or perhaps he was created by AI!
ReplyDeleteYP, trying to keep up with him is good for our ageing brains.
DeleteI was born in the Mental Arithmetic days . Calculators didn’t exist. What useful objects they became and compulsory maths died. Unfortunately students are using AI to their disadvantage. Teachers are having to spend countless hours checking and re checking work to ensure that is actually students work.Al is making students lazy and basic thinking and learning skills are being ignored by students.. AI is now so clever it humanises writing . AI is not going away and will only get better but like social media will become “factual” . Humans think they are clever but I suspect 🤖 day by day is surpassing the human brain , we are being untrained. and apparently enjoying the experience .
ReplyDeleteThat's very interesting, and disturbing. I am not sure that AI writing has yet been humanised but I am sure it will be very soon. It's topical here at the moment about the actual physical writing by students. I'm afraid my writing has always been bad, and fortunately I have two Indian trained scribes who write English very nicely for me, albeit rather flowery if I allow them.
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ReplyDeleteSilicon Valley or bust.
I'm very pleased to know you enjoy my writing and the topics I choose, Kirk. With your expert writing skills and sense of humour, I find your blog both interesting and amusing.
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ReplyDeleteYou were the first person to alert me to the dangers of AI in blogs, thank you.
Since then I have seen hundreds of so-called Gustav Klimt paintings, presumably being sold to innocent people who don't recognise these works as AI . Why aren't the criminals banned by Facebook etc?
I am amused about the Klimt fakes, Hels. Even minimal research will indicate what an original could be worth. I don't feel like defending FB, but there is just so much content, how can it review everything.
DeleteI've noticed a lot of AI generated spam comments hitting my blog recently - they reference the content of the post they are commenting on, but aren't something a real human reading my blog would ever write.
ReplyDeletehttps://wongm.com/2025/05/a-new-world-of-somewhat-plausible-ai-generated-comment-spam/
Marcus, while I did forget about your post, being shallow as I am, even the first line of your first example gives it away as AI. Perhaps my AI detection skills were already alert after reading your post, and they certainly have been after watching Evan's clip.
DeleteYou know, I don't get any comments from Melody Jacob anymore. I checked out her (?) blog and it had some provably incorrect information that was being used to create controversy and outrage. I said the information was incorrect, and haven't heard from her since.
ReplyDeletePS I had no clue her comments were AI generated. That's interesting. There's another commenter who seems to fit that pattern as well. I'll have to keep watch.
DeleteThat's interesting Debby. I've decided now I will just delete her comments. If she is a real person, I doubt she would check back anyway. I have a commenter whose first language isn't English and he uses a form of AI to post comments and write his blog. So we have to be careful about such things.
DeleteI sat through six minutes and had enough. I knew Melody Jacob was probably AI and there's a new one, don't remember his name right now but suspect he is also AI.
ReplyDeleteRiver, really it is such a waste of time for them. We aren't read by young people who they would want to sell to. We are not frivolous spenders.
DeleteSo interesting is this subject, Andrew.
ReplyDeleteI always do my own comments like most of us.
I have certainly noticed Melody's comments were not hers totally, the last few are I'm sure but prior to that they to me are AI. Such a pity as the personal touch has gone when she's used it.
Nice video, have listened to a bit of it, will continue later.
Are you ok?
Margaret, I was immediately suspicious about her comments but they seemed harmless, and without a link to anything until I looked at her blog. Nothing made sense to me about her comments, and now I have a better understanding.
DeleteYes thanks, I am healing as to be expected. A GP appointment next Monday to check all is well, and I feel it is.
That's good on your health Andrew.
DeleteAI is an experiment that could go horribly wrong. There are millions of Youtube videos out there, often with those fast talking young men (who all look alike) telling us things. I have come to a sad conclusion, just don't trust anyone. I mean even if our prime minister is doing it what chance have we.
ReplyDeleteThelma, maybe we have distinguish between AI used for convenience and AI used for purposes we don't like. Can we divide the two?
DeleteYes I think we can, applied to systems it works, but in the hands of people who are playing around with it less so. Our Andrew, computer expert, stands by it.
DeleteAI has been around for at least 50 years so is nothing new, though its applications may be more imaginative now. It's quite easy to spot AI comments.
ReplyDeleteI may be wrong, but I disagree about Melody Jacob. Yes, her comments often seem AI or AI inspired, but I think she is a genuine young person.
JB, your opinion about Melody is very interesting, and while I respect your experience, let's see if she responds to this post to defend herself with outrage.
DeleteI am getting more and more AI comments, often linked to pages with travel services in the third world. I have a stock answer to spam on my blog, Google Adsense will be glad to sell you space.
ReplyDeleteTP, I don't believe you do third world travel, so the algorithm doesn't have you quite right yet.
DeleteWhoa! You named names! I have been suspicious of Melody's comments but I was never certain. I think her blog is real enough but I agree her comments are suspect -- mostly because they seem to merely reflect back what the blogger has written, rather than expressing real personal views or stories of her own. I tried to read her blog but she writes about stuff that just doesn't connect with me -- how to pair lime-green platform shoes with a Scottish tartan skirt. (OK, I made that up, but there's stuff in that vein.) Plus I am immediately put off by blogs that advertise. Sorry, Melody, if you're reading this -- I have nothing against you personally!
ReplyDeleteSteve, I tried too but the blog was such a hodge podge, I decided I was wasting my time. I did read a headline about visiting a Scottish Castle.
DeleteI thought her comments were AI from the beginning when I checked ot her blog. There seem to be a few people using AI which always feels so flowery and stilted, Andrew.
ReplyDeletePat, some do so because English is not their first language, so we need to be careful. A quick glance usually tells us if it is a proper blogger or not.
DeleteHappily, I doubt that I travel in a blog crowd that's likely to use AI comments because none of us run ads or are trying to be "influencers."
ReplyDeleteSnowy, our days of influence have passed. We are now just repositories of life experiences.
DeleteI've never considered using AI for writing. ~shakes head~ Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteMe either, Darla. I had a little play with it and sometimes it was helpful but mostly a nuisance and did not write like I do.
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