Can we assume that an edited post or comment was made by a human? Kinda curious if the edit flag implies ‘human’ now?

  • LillyPip@lemmy.caOP
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      4 hours ago

      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.