How is AI different than a copy editor or proof reader, fixing grammar and putting in periods, commas, and stuff?
The forum of discussion determines whether ideas be judged on their merits before anyone considers how they were written. Forums of learning require integrity and authenticity in order for persons to exercise logic, reason, structure, critique, etc. Education is about the development of the human mind's ability for thought, reason, structure, discipline, etc. Forums of entertainment and politics do not require such integrity and rigor. To use AI to write papers in an Academic environment is akin to using steroids in college athletics. Using AI for writing in entertainment and politics does not violate any code of ethics, as long as proper attributions are given, because they are performance theater . Using AI to generate false images, video, and audio requires disclosure and image likeness licensing in entertainment (commercial), and but it is dangerous in politics (non-commercial).
The line between legitimate assistance and intellectual substitution is money. For commercial endeavors, so long as intellectual property rights are respected, AI is legitimate assistance. For non-commercial endeavors, it is intellectual substitution.
AI detectors can reliably determine patterns of language and attempt attribution of authorship, similar to blood-typing and finger-printing, prior to DNA, to attempt to identify suspects.
We are creating a culture that trusts algorithms more than human judgment because recent human judgement has been self-serving and not for the public good nor in the public interest of all. Take Global Climate Change as an example - humans have political and social motivations to limit debate and discussion; AI evaluates the data it is provided by humans, who may have political and social motivations to shape opinions. Even with AI, humans remain the weak link.
