Deb Roy argues AI-written civic comments need an accountable human author
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MIT professor Deb Roy, director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, argues in a Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists essay that AI-generated text in civic conversations needs an accountable person standing behind it.
He cites the 2017 FCC net neutrality proceeding, which drew more than 22 million public comments, nearly 18 million of which the New York attorney general later found to be fake. Roy says large language models erase the templated patterns that once made such fraud detectable.
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AIMIT professor Deb Roy, director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, argues in a Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists essay that AI-generated text in civic conversations needs an accountable person behind it. He cites the 2017 FCC net neutrality proceeding, which drew more than 22 million public comments, of which the New York attorney general later found nearly 18 million to be fake. Roy says large language models erase the templated patterns that once exposed such fraud.
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