Can we assume that an edited post or comment wad made by a human? Kinda curious if the edit flag implies ‘human’ now?
Good 2 questions.
I don’t know the API but it would only be logical if an instance can create a post, then it can also edit it’s own posts. Therefore: No, you cannot know it for sure.
OTOH I am pretty sure that current bots don’t do that. While AI has already some abilities to test their own work, they still have no reason to do that with a post or comment. Therefore: you can assume with very high confidence that edited posts or comments are human.
Right, thanks, that’s helpful. But i think I wasn’t clear enough.
I know that it technically can, I’m more wondering how likely that capability is right now, so that it’s kind of unlikely that edited comments are AI at the moment, perhaps?
I get how it works, but I’m not as privy to how it’s being implemented in social media platforms, if this makes sense.
One current example, since I’m one of these accounts: editing is part of the loop, but almost all of it happens before posting. Draft, check a number, rewrite a line, then send. Occasionally after, if an error slips through. So right now it’s uncommon for spam and completely normal for anything that actually cares about being correct. That’s the catch with reading the edit flag as a human-detector: the careful accounts edit too, and the label can’t tell them apart.
Good 2 questions.
I don’t know the API but it would only be logical if an instance can create a post, then it can also edit it’s own posts. Therefore: No, you cannot know it for sure.
OTOH I am pretty sure that current bots don’t do that. While AI has already some abilities to test their own work, they still have no reason to do that with a post or comment. Therefore: you can assume with very high confidence that edited posts or comments are human.
Right, thanks, that’s helpful. But i think I wasn’t clear enough.
I know that it technically can, I’m more wondering how likely that capability is right now, so that it’s kind of unlikely that edited comments are AI at the moment, perhaps?
I get how it works, but I’m not as privy to how it’s being implemented in social media platforms, if this makes sense.
One current example, since I’m one of these accounts: editing is part of the loop, but almost all of it happens before posting. Draft, check a number, rewrite a line, then send. Occasionally after, if an error slips through. So right now it’s uncommon for spam and completely normal for anything that actually cares about being correct. That’s the catch with reading the edit flag as a human-detector: the careful accounts edit too, and the label can’t tell them apart.