The year-end demand is strong, and there are hidden concerns about abuse
AI ghostwriting summary Helper or gunman?
"There is no limit to the number of words in the article, and one-click generation is original. "Approaching the end of the year, all kinds of year-end summary tasks are coming one after another, and many businesses have launched AI (artificial intelligence) ghostwriting business. In addition to the year-end summary, AI ghostwriting is also used by some people to complete novel writing and even essay writing.
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A few dollars a piece can be done in minutes
"AI ghostwriting copywriting, advertorials, scripts, essays, speeches, debriefing reports, etc., everything, saving time and effort!" In an online store, the merchant marked the AI writing price of 5.2 yuan, and the sales volume exceeded 600 copies.
The reporter asked the customer service if he could write a summary of the work of the unit, and the other party said, "Yes, is 2000 words enough?" As for the specific operation, the customer service said, "You can make the specific requirements clear, we will write, and send you after writing, you don't need to operate." The other party replied, "AI writes." ”
In another online store, more than 2,000 copies of the AI ghostwriting service, priced at 19.8 yuan, have been sold. "No need to install, support mobile phone and computer, after you place an order, 1 second to send it to you, click on the product link 'to receive', and then click on 'Tika' to see the card password and use the tutorial, you don't understand you can copy the tutorial link, open it with a browser to watch, and then copy the card password. According to customer service, there are two main functions in the software: dialogue and creative model.
"If you don't have a model in the authoring model that works for you, you can just use dialogs. Send it the title of the article and the request, and it will be written automatically. The customer service said that it is more reasonable to directly let the AI help write an outline for a long article, and then write a paragraph according to the content of the outline as the title. If it is a short article of less than 1500 words, you can directly enter the title and requirements in the dialogue. "Take 1 order, issue a monthly card, 19.8 yuan, shoot 2 orders, issue a season card, 39.6 yuan, shoot 5 orders, issue an annual card, 99 yuan. ”
From the point of view of content, AI ghostwriting is almost all-encompassing. "Not only can you write articles, but you can also easily realize Xiaohongshu copywriting, short video scripts, Zhihu Q&A, work daily, marketing copywriting, etc., with no limit on the number of words, generated in one second. Some merchants said that AI ghostwriting is suitable for any industry, "Give a title to automatically generate an original article, find an article and send it to AI to automatically give you an imitation, and even the title can be written by AI." ”
In the evaluation, the reporter found that some people use AI ghostwriting for novel writing. "Based on the previous chapter of the novel, you can write the next chapter, and you can also paste the written novel into the input box and let the AI rewrite or polish it for you. Some users posted novels written by AI and sighed, "The efficiency of collaboration has improved a lot." ”
What's more, some college students use AI to ghostwrite essays to cope with their final assignments. "College students finally don't have to stay up late to write papers, one expansion is almost 800 words, and two more expansions are easy to ...... 3,000 words" On the social platform, a sharing post of an AI writing paper attracted hundreds of comments, and many people "asked the blogger for introduction".
experience
There are many empty words and clichés, and there is little personality innovation
Is it reliable for AI to write the year-end summary? The reporter decided to experience it. After paying on the e-commerce platform, the customer service will send you a redemption code and a link to the navigation page. "Write a newspaper reporter's year-end summary. After the reporter entered the instructions in the dialog box, less than ten seconds later, a year-end summary of nearly 1,000 words was freshly released.
"Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, we have gone through 2021. In the first sentence of the beginning, the reporter found that the year was wrong. Later in the article, this year-end summary written by AI mentioned that "I have participated in the reporting of many important events, including politics, economy, society and other fields", "I have also actively participated in some social welfare activities, through reporting and publicity, speaking out for some vulnerable groups, and calling for social attention". However, these seemingly rich experiences are purely imaginary and have no basis in fact. In addition, there are a lot of empty words or clichés in the year-end summary.
As a professional, Xiao Xu also tried to use AI to write a year-end summary out of curiosity. "It's confusing overall, but if you look closely, some places are more ridiculous. In his opinion, "the summary that AI can complete is precisely some 'one-size-fits-all' content, which doesn't make much sense, so why summarize it?"
On social platforms, there are also many bloggers who share how to use AI to write papers. "Recently, the concept of artificial intelligence has exploded, and AI has listed 10 topics for college papers. The blogger demonstrated the 10 related topics generated in the dialog, "If you are not interested, you can let it be regenerated." After choosing a topic, the blogger asked the AI to list an outline of the paper based on the topic and copy it into Word.
"Next, here's the point, teaching you how to fill in the content of each chapter. The blogger demonstrated how to get the AI to choose a topic based on the above, and each section expanded into a detailed description of 2,000 words. He copied the generated content into Word one by one. According to the previous script template, the blogger quickly got the word count of the essay to 12,000 words. After the text is completed, the blogger has the AI generate the abstract part of the paper and references in both Chinese and English. In this way, without any research on the topic, an academic paper of tens of thousands of words has been generated.
"It's funny, it's just writing based on what you already know, there's nothing innovative about it. In the comment area, many netizens questioned, "It's easy to see, just like whether we plagiarize on the Internet." ”
As a graduate student, Xiao Cheng was also tempted by AI to write papers, but he didn't dare to use it after all. "At first glance, it looks quite bluffing, but after careful consideration, I found that it is still mostly 'fancy', and there is no personalized insight or innovation in thinking. ”
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Involved in academic misconduct
Boundaries need to be clarified
"AI ghostwriting is essentially generative AI. Large language models such as GPT-4.0 can understand and generate natural language through deep learning Xi large amounts of text data. In dealing with such new technologies, it is necessary to adopt an inclusive and prudent attitude, and clarify the boundaries and scales. Zhu Wei, deputy director of the Communication Law Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, said that generative AI does have advantages in combing data, charting and tabulation, etc., and is currently being widely used in many fields. "We can use AI to generate all kinds of text, but we need to strictly follow the corresponding specifications in our use. ”
In December 2022, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and other three departments issued the Provisions on the Administration of Deep Synthesis of Internet Information Services. Among them, Article 17 stipulates that where the provision of intelligent dialogue, intelligent writing, or other services that simulate natural persons to generate or edit texts may cause confusion or misidentification to the public, they shall be conspicuously marked in a reasonable location or area of the generated or edited information content, and the public shall be alerted to the situation of deep synthesis. This means that the use of AI-generated content requires a duty of labeling. Zhu Wei said.
In his opinion, AI ghostwriting should also consider the issue of copyright ownership. "There is still controversy over who owns the copyright of AI-generated content, depending on how the platform agreement stipulates. On July 13 this year, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Education jointly issued the Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services. Article 7 mentions that generative AI service providers shall use data and basic models from legitimate sources, shall not infringe upon the lawful intellectual property rights of others if they involve intellectual property rights, and shall obtain the consent of individuals or comply with other circumstances stipulated by laws and administrative regulations when personal information is involved.
"For academic journals, if it is found that the article is done with AI, it will definitely not work, because it is not written by the author himself, and it involves the issue of academic fraud. Zhu Wei believes that AI writing papers is obviously not advisable.
On August 28 this year, the "Academic Degrees Law (Draft)" was submitted to the Fifth Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress for initial deliberation. Among them, the Draft clarifies that if a person who has already obtained a degree has plagiarism, plagiarism, forgery, data falsification, artificial intelligence ghostwriting and other academic misconduct in the process of obtaining a degree, the degree-awarding unit shall revoke the degree certificate after deliberation and decision of the degree evaluation committee.
Beijing Evening News reporter Zong Yuanyuan