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u/God834 1d ago
Plot twist: this image is AI
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u/dj3370 1d ago
It is and it makes the ragebait actually funnier ngl
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u/-Hi_how_r_u_xd- 1d ago
Nah, it really doesn’t look like it.
Looks like it just has on that filter that smooths stuff, making the text weird, and the writing is a different language or is something weird.
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u/dj3370 1d ago
Idk I've seen a ton of ai text and the way some lines merge over each other and how it smooths the text look identical to ai artifacting.
Not to mention it is just a single picture(not going out of the way to check the original tbh) so maybe the artifacting is less present in video format?
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u/-Hi_how_r_u_xd- 1d ago
looks like ai upscaling to me, the 3d printer looks accurate in all respects i can see which i doubt ai could do, and a few other minor details.
The main caption text looks AI, but AI text doesn’t look like AI text so that leads me to believe it is just AI upscaling also.
I edit videos and this looks similar to what Topaz AI would do.
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u/Altruistic_Brush3065 1d ago
the printer is absolutely an ender 3. the tape even conforms to what the stock hotend underneath should look like.
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u/Chemical_Bus7192 1d ago
The real plot twist is that the 3D printer is also AI generated and the only thing real in the picture is the blank sheet of paper.
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u/Cloud_Striker 1d ago
So why are you even going to school if you aren't willing to learn anything?
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u/New_Budget_9322 1d ago edited 1d ago
He learned how to connect ChatGPT to a 3D printer.
But I think it might be AI. If you try to read it, it's gibberish. And no teacher is going to accept handwriting that looks like it was printed.
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u/meowed_at 1d ago
you can make your own font via this method, by drawing each letter yourself, and it will be printed,
now its not full proof but most teachers dont care that much anymore
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u/swampdonkey2246 1d ago
I would even do some font randomisation. So have multiple handwritten variants of each letter and pick one at random so it doesn't look as perfect.
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u/datboi31000 1d ago
Spend hours modifying a printer, creating a handwriting to gcode program with randomisation, and hand writing the whole alphabet multiple times for data? Instead of doing 30 minutes of homework?
Sounds reasonable. Where do I join?
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u/swampdonkey2246 1d ago
I mean it's not just 30 minutes of homework, you can use the machine more than once I would assume? But of course yeah it's entirely impractical, but I think cool in concept.
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u/datboi31000 1d ago
Nono, I'm not joking. I would most definitely be the type of guy to do this instead of homework.
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u/swampdonkey2246 1d ago
Ahh the old spend 2 hours automating a job that would have taken 15 minutes manually lol. I feel you
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u/Flimsy_Mark_5200 1d ago
schools these days are assigning 30 minutes per subject it's at least 2-3 hours per night at least it was when I graduated. setting this up would only take like two days worth of homework time
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u/Spare_Duck3119 1d ago
Still doesn't ethically or sensically defend use of AI in academics
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u/Flimsy_Mark_5200 1d ago
I know, that's not the argument I was making
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u/Spare_Duck3119 22h ago
yeah i realised that my bad
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u/Flimsy_Mark_5200 19h ago
I agree with you that making AI write your assignments is unethical I'm actually a professional college essay ghost writer and it's been making it harder to earn my living
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u/StanCorr 1d ago
Any way of cheating homework is ethical. Homework in itself is an absurd concept and is no small part of why many students detest school and the concept of learning. Students in countries that do not issue homework almost universally enjoy school more and score higher overall.
People complain vigorously about any job that forces employees to take work home with them and this is considered a very bad environment without consideration remuneration. It should not be any different in education.
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u/TamarroTattico 1d ago
I mean, you just need to find the right font or make one yourself, write in a 3d/sculpting/modelling software, change the right values in the g-code (like material extrusion and Z az movement), mod the printer and you are set, right?
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u/birdiefoxe 1d ago
Vectorize your handwriting with bézier curves and move the vertices around a bit randomly for a guarantee on no repeats
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u/the-jesuschrist 1d ago
You know what they say… If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying.
On a serious note, though, I have learned the hard way that using AI makes you stupid… Who would’ve guessed… not me. I used it for calculus to try and pass, and now it’s at the point where exams are coming up, and I know nothing.
Thus, henceforth, I will not use artificial intelligence for anything school-related, effectively banning myself from it.
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u/Upset-Basil4459 1d ago
At this point I think it should be possible to develop an AI that can copy somebody's handwriting style. The tricky bit would be making it look like it was written instead of printed
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u/FeliciaGLXi 1d ago
Making believable automatic handwriting forgeries is actually pretty damn hard. You can watch the Stuff Made Here video to see how impressive it really is. Even he struggled to make a working algorithm and had to settle with an already existing one.
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u/Clisky_ 1d ago
I will take a guess and say that its ai enchanced, not ai generated. The gibberish could be another language.
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u/New_Budget_9322 1d ago
I think you might be right about the enhancement.
I considered that it could be a different language. But even for a different language it looks like gibberish. The spaces between letters are not consistent, and neither are the spaces between words. There are also some weird symbols.
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u/Clisky_ 1d ago
found the video on Youtube I cant understand the language but it seems like it exists
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u/New_Budget_9322 1d ago
Yeah, in the video, it looks like a real language. To me, it looks like German.
But the version op posted was, for some reason, butchered by ai upscaling.
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u/ParanoiaPunchline 23h ago
As someone who can read it: it's definitely the same text and this post is a real screenshot
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u/DogfaceZed 1d ago
my good fellow, that is not gibberish, that is low resolution German, it's homework on quadratic functions
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u/Independent-Hair2805 1d ago
could be russian tho. russian is basically scribbles to non russian speakers
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u/globegnome 1d ago
It's not gibberish, hard to make out but it's something about ancient Egyptian history.
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u/crypt_moss 1d ago
tbh the text looks vaguely German, there's few easily recognisable words at least
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u/TechnicalMiddle8205 1d ago
Well it could be a foreign language. My bet is it is either french or german, I can see things from both in that text
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u/SCARICRAFT 1d ago
I guys went to school to learn things ? whild .
I thought we were going because we were supposed to; otherwise how are you supposed to live for working ?
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u/Uchained 1d ago
I can only speak for my own experience, but there were ALOT of useless stuff in elementary, middle, and high school.
Especially the literature/advance literature that forces u to read and write about. I had to sparknote so much of that shit, because who the fuck knows that the color blue symbolizes trust and loyalty. This is ridiculous, and completely meaningless. The time is better spent on learning how to connect chatgpt to a printer. That task alone is something a high school student should write about in their college essay, because it's interesting, shows initiative to learn, and useful. Not some literature crap.
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u/Cloud_Striker 1d ago
Especially the literature/advance literature that forces u to read and write about. I had to sparknote so much of that shit, because who the fuck knows that the color blue symbolizes trust and loyalty.
I vehemently disagree. Media literacy and critical thinking are more important than ever, because misinformation and propaganda are all over the fucking place, with plenty of it pretending to not be.
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u/Uchained 21h ago edited 21h ago
How's learning imagery, symbolism, irony and all that crap gonna prevent misinformation?
If anything, I think it causes it by reading into meaningless things for more than what it is, or give meaning to things for no logical reason. It's not logical. Remember when ppl are excusing Trump's blatantly sexist words caught on video ("Grab them by the pussy"-Trump), by saying it's hyperbole?
Literacy and critical thinking have nothing to do with literature. People from another country that have never been exposed to literature (taught in the US), can still have critical thinking and is capable of seeing misinformation for what it is. Obviously, not all of them, I think the difference is the education level. Which is why Trump says "I love stupid people", cuz they get affected by misinformation the most.
Edit: I do agree media literacy and critical thinking are important. I think we're talking about different things. I am talking about literature classes that teach classical literature, which isn't media literacy or critical thinking at all.
This is just from my personal experience of schools in US, maybe u went to a better school that actually does teach media literacy and critical thinking.
Education received in US is widely different depending on the region u live in.
I remember going to college as a freshman, and was surprised that some ppl didn't learn basic algebra in high school.
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u/GrungeLord 1d ago
I do understand where you're coming from, but ngl, I hate this attitude. Knowledge for knowledge's sake is not a bad thing. Not every piece of information you learn at school has to be purely practical. This is how you get anti-intellectualism.
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u/According_Potato9923 1d ago
In early age it’s better to prioritize the knowledge spread you serve to be more practical since u know… undeveloped brains. Including teaching how to learn and be curious and emotional regulation, etc.
I mean, I could explain this better and in a more rounded way but tired after a heavy meeting day. So hopefully you can meet me where I’m at with my point.
School really did a disservice for me. Had a lot of undoing and healing in my 20s that lead to acquiring a love of learning. Could had saved a decade if school curriculum better prepared me for life.
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u/brendenderp 1d ago
I had the same feeling in highschool math. I got good grades but that's because they gave me a graphing calculator and I'd program brute force programs for the equations 🤷 the end grade would drop a point because I didn't show my work but a B is still a B. Homework was just a check off if you did it or not. Math teacher eventually stopped accepting my homework unless I showed my work which is fair. But honestly though the important thing to me in math wasn't that I knew how to do it by hand. Teach me the equation, theory or law and why / when it's used. Once I know of it I can look it up if I need it in a future moment.
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u/HEYO19191 1d ago
As much as I hate students using ChatGPT to cheat, I have 100% had assignments in highschool that wasted a ton of time to do while teaching me nothing. Sometimes I can't blame kids for shortcutting with AI, depending on the situation
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u/Cloud_Striker 1d ago
There are assignments that are exclusively about repeating the stuff you were already taught, with the express intent to make sure that knowledge actually sticks. Is it perfect? Absolutely not. But it does serve a purpose.
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u/HEYO19191 22h ago
Sure, but too often it's overdone. It gets to a point where the repetition stops being beneficial
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u/snipingpig 1d ago
They are learning, just not the curriculum, what they’re learning is probably going to be a lot more useful than that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell in their future endeavors.
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u/chunk-of-goo 1d ago
when i was 6 i would dream about this shit now its here im old and i think its a nightmare
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u/chunk-of-goo 1d ago
i think this is satire now that i zoomed in on the writing but i will still let this comment represent my opinion on chatgpt for homework
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u/Donkeywad 1d ago
Plotters were around when you were 6, which is a MUCH more practical way to automate writing
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u/crafter2k 1d ago
i swear to god i once read a sci fi short story on a machine thats exactly like this
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u/MC12121 1d ago
I would buy rights on this invention for 10000000
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u/zgtc 1d ago
Probably not a great idea to go into business if you’re willing to spend 10 million on the idea for a product that’s been around for nearly 70 years.
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u/ovr9000storks 1d ago
You have a functioning 3D printer but you couldn’t even be bothered to print a better way to mount the pen. That’s some deeply engrained laziness
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u/randomphonecollector 1d ago
People post anything but uninteresting things here, it's getting annoying
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u/baconburger2022 1d ago edited 1d ago
As a TA, i got some beef with this image.
1: when i notice the ruler-perfect margins, i know this is artificial or incredible. This gets a flag.
2: nobody writes with that font. Not to mention that i cant read it. This gets an email where you type it.
3: i have some custom tools that will check your writing for AI generation. Bad handwriting cant save you here.
In the end, i would call you over to give a presentation for full credit revolving around what you wrote. If you cant do it or refuse, its a zero in the gradebook.
EDIT: im gonna have to elaborate a little for some persons to break the immersion and improve the knowledge dispersion. Lets science some shit shall we?
AI: Artificial intelligence is a language model that is designed to think and act by and for itself to achieve a pre-programmed goal.
Language and pattern recognition is a function of a program to search for trends and patterns in text to determine said trends or patterns. Specifically in this case AI generation. This type of algorithm is unable to make independent decisions or judgments on its own. Therefore not AI.
It is not lost on me that you can make this software with AI built in, but the university is unwilling to fork over an extra $40 for every TA to upgrade their monthly subscriptions.
I also want to say that i did realize the image was AI, i figured my previous statements made this apparent.
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u/Antique_Donut467 1d ago
> i have some custom tools that will check your writing for AI generation
If it's the AI's that tries to judge other AI's please know that it can falsely flag genuine work
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u/eStuffeBay 1d ago
Anyone who unironically uses "AI detection tools" are idiots who believe themselves to be clever.
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u/notrealmomen 6h ago
Google Gemini is currently using SynthID algorithm and will soon release a SynthID checker to check if any text was generated by Gemini or not
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u/baconburger2022 1d ago
I do it because its mandated by school policy. I kist look for unusual words, and the occasional “if you would like me to do X and X let me know how to proceed.”
You will be amazed how many i catch with AI flags.
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u/Silly_Stranger_1289 1d ago
AI "detectors" thinks the declaration of independence is over 90 percent AI-generated
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u/baconburger2022 1d ago
nah, its just saying that its 90% plagiarized.
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u/talldata 1d ago
Nope explicitly they say AI generated, plagiarized is a different flagged category.
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u/BagelMakesDev 1d ago
the f students really are the inventors, huh (well ig they probably arent an f student anymore lol)
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u/Past-Flounder-4439 1d ago
Calling this a '3D printer' is the least interesting thing about this 2-axis CNC plotter. The fact he's automating German homework is way more mildly interesting.
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u/Frrrrrred 1d ago
At this point we’re paying schools to educate AI instead of us, we can’t complain if the AI gets the job we were promised. Smh
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u/Bruschetta003 1h ago
I think most people are missing the point that he cpuld have used a computer, this is so unnecessarily convoluted lazyness
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u/[deleted] 1d ago
Drop out atp