r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Negative_1by12_aura • 11h ago
Don't hug me I'm scared No AI symbol is AI generated
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u/bagel_blight041 11h ago
And wait until you hear how many “AI Checkers” are flawed.
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u/Ban-Circumcision-Now 11h ago
It’s alarming how many writers a hundred years ago were using ai
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u/xGray3 9h ago
Unfortunately the only way I can feel safe knowing something isn't AI these days is if it existed pre-2022.
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u/jonny24eh 7h ago
Yeah the date is the first thing i check when I look for history YouTube videos. So many videos have been put out in the last 2 months, 6 months etc.
And of course YTs filters don't have full functionality. You can ser a recency window but you can't set to "Before X" at all.
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u/ratface1111 7h ago
Actually, you can limit YT searches to before a certain date. If you type in something, add in "before:[date]"
For instance, if you want videos from before 2011 about, say, Monaco, you'd enter your search like so: Monaco before:2011
Done my good deed for the day lol2
u/jonny24eh 7h ago
Holy shit, thank you!
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u/ratface1111 6h ago
Glad to help! I always like rooting around for old anime or comedy videos, so I make use of that function a lot.
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u/WillowPtar_Migan 5h ago
Huh, I didn't know that worked on YouTube. I've been using it liberally in Google search. Good to know, thanks!
Here's some other useful ones for Google in return, putting something in quotes will search for exactly that string of characters rather than keywords. I use it for niche games that have results get mixed up with other games.
Example:
"Stationeers" best way to run an electrolyzer
That game gets mixed up with the more popular Oxygen Not Included in searches.
There's also site:, if you put site: in your search terms, you can search a specific website. I use this to pull up Reddit results quite often. For example, imagine I want to know how to partition my hard drive, but find tech articles grating. I'd search
How to partition hard drive site:reddit.com
I also use that to filter out other video sites when searching for videos. I'd rather not find what I'm looking for than make an account to watch it on Facebook.
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u/ratface1111 5h ago
I knew about the site: one, but I didn't know I could search with only part of my entry in quotation marks! I thought it only worked if you wanted a specific word/sentence as the whole search. Thanks a lot, that'll make finding some old stuff I've been having trouble re-earthing loads easier!
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u/shiddedandfarded69 11h ago
The ones I implemented as a POC test for an educational client had a 98% success rate for detecting AI content. Unfortunately they also had an average 65% false-positive rate.
AI detection software has a long, loooong way to go. But they're already implemented everywhere sadly.
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u/nascent_aviator 11h ago
The ones I implemented as a POC test for an educational client had a 98% success rate
I read this as "person of color" test and was very confused/disturbed for a moment.
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u/shiddedandfarded69 10h ago
Coincidentally one of the documents we fed it was an essay on segregation that was written in 1972. The top AI detection suite reported 83% (iirc) confidence that it was AI generated...
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u/REXIS_AGECKO 7h ago
Proof that skynet really did go back in time.
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u/arahman81 YELLOW 7h ago
As in it schlorped up the texts from the past to generate the current text.
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u/SlugCatBoi 11h ago
I can make an AI checker that correctly identifies 100% of AI content!
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u/thoawaydatrash 11h ago
if (True):
is_ai_content=True
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u/SlugCatBoi 10h ago
func is_ai_content(){ return True }
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u/thoawaydatrash 10h ago
whoa whoa whoa, modularizing the check into a function? This is feeling pretty AI generated to me.
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u/SlugCatBoi 10h ago
My company requires functional programming.
They also require I use Claude, but that's unrelated.
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u/thoawaydatrash 10h ago
Are you a bot? You're legally required to tell me if you're a bot!
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u/SlugCatBoi 10h ago
No, I'm not a bot.
beep boop, I am a bot and this action was performed automatically. Please [suck my balls](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ if you have any questions or concerns)
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u/caintowers RED 11h ago
Ideally all AI agents would leave some kind of pattern or marker on their output so any checker could identify whether it is AI generated and what AI did it.
I know a lot of them do it for images, like Gemini and GPT.
But, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think they do it for text. And because they're trained ON human writing, of course what they generate is going to share similarities.
I take pride in my writing. It's a weird thing to get complimented on, but I used to get random praise like "your emails are so professional!". Now it's "did you use AI to write that?" And it's like no, but Google probably used my outbox for training data.
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u/King_of_the_Kobolds 10h ago
Words cannot describe how much I hate you can no longer write a multi paragraph, articulate post on many subreddits without getting accused of AI.
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u/Financial_Pin8385 8h ago
I also feel like I can't use the em dash anymore. That was my favourite punctuation mark
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u/TransientWonderboy 7h ago
When I was writing blogs as a digital marketing manager I was told to stop using em dashes for just this reason
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u/Rewdboy05 10h ago
Some of them actually started doing it for text a while back. It's actually really interesting how they figured out how to do it.
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u/rabies_peppermint 11h ago
yeah, they are flawed. when I was still in high school I got accused of AI every single time I had an assignment because I could write better than what they deemed I could. :|
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u/Mystic_Wunder 10h ago
That's why it's good to write in something like Google Docs that has a document history showing your edits over time. If you are someone who gets thoughts out on the page then tweeks and edits until it's right it could easily show it as proof. If you're someone who just types the whole thing out quickly without need for much editing you may be screwed. And also, I'm jealous.
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u/Crazydiamond450 11h ago
My daughter has had several assignments flagged for AI too, it's infuriating
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u/Nervous_Metal_9445 ORANGE 9h ago
I've come back as 60% AI before, and I use 0 AI in any of my work.
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u/upstatedreaming3816 8h ago
We were told to use them when I was doing my graduate’s degree, and then submit a screenshot of the checker saying no AI was detected. I spent a week writing a paper, put it into the checker, and was flagged as a 92% match for being AI-generated.
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u/RobertJacobson 8h ago
I have discovered that a lot of people are really bad at recognizing AI. The most likely explanation here is that a teacher who is not particularly tech savvy found this graphic in some "teacher resources" website and used it without knowing it is AI.
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u/Negative-Web8619 7h ago
No, it's more simple than that. The sign isn't there because using AI is bad or because the teacher doesn't like it. It's because it's bad for learning.
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u/vincentdjangogh 5h ago
And it's pretty obvious from the "for this assignment" specification. People participating in the AI culture war just assume everyone else is as extreme as them.
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u/Sandy-the-Angel 4h ago
And they think its a teacher's job to go balls to the wall when their job is literally the opposite.
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u/Narge1 4h ago
I feel like a fucking moron. What are the tells that this is AI?
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u/rickyman20 4h ago
AI has a slightly uncanny overly caroon-y feel to the art that it generates. There's also inconsistent fonts and ease with which it generates not straight text (like in this case). It's not a sure-fire way to identify it but AI art does have a "smell". It's hard to describe until you've seen a bunch of it
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u/incrediblestrawberry 31m ago
Same. It just looks like cartooney clip art. The stoplight is in the right order and it's symmetrical. The raccoon has a normal number of limbs and a logical pose, and doesn't have any weird markings in random places. The font of the text looks consistent (for example, all the S's look the same), just stylized and intentionally warped for effect. What's the "tell" between this and something made by someone with clip art and a bit of knowledge on how to edit text in Photoshop? I genuinely don't know.
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u/ShAped_Ink 7h ago
Unfortunately. I feel crazy every time I have to point out how obvious AI slop is and some people who I guess don't have eyes of something stare at me like 0.0
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u/Kumquatelvis 5h ago
I frequently can't tell. A reddit post will call out something as AI, and zoom in and circle little oddities, and I'm like "how did you notice that?"
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u/ShAped_Ink 3h ago
Show me an example. 90% it is so obvious, the weird colours, the gloss, the similar posing, I'm not even looking for it, I'm just seeing how bad it is in the first look. Only a few things I miss and those are all super minor that are done with the newest models a lot of photoshoot to make it less like AI looking. Most sloppers don't care and think shit looks good while other sloppers try to mask the piece of shit as something else, but you can still tell it's a turd on the ground if you expect it.
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u/AttitudeEquivalent73 10h ago
Why would ai be allowed on any assignment unless it’s a study on ai in some capacity? “Hey kids! You can outsource your work to the plagiarism and lies machine and not learn shit!”
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u/Only-Dog5752 10h ago
Because if you don't say it, someone will say it wasn't explicitly mentioned not to use it.
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u/Fizassist1 9h ago
as a high school teacher, I just had a student say this exact thing a couple days ago.
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u/IdentifiableBurden 9h ago
And you told them that life isn't a game of playing rules against the rule-makers and didn't let them pretend not to know better, right?
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u/seventy912 9h ago
I mean, you just answered your own question. There are some assignments that will allow or require you to use or interact with AI in some capacity. If you make it clear this isn’t one of them then a student can’t come up with a dumb excuse either.
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u/NotAGoat3 4h ago
This is clearly a teacher who doesn't want students to cheat on their test instead of someone who cares about the politics of AI
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u/Sandy-the-Angel 4h ago
Op confused why a teacher is focused on their job and not on random terminally online stuff.
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u/benz-friend 11h ago
Are those visual markings indicating the raccoon is letting one rip from his ass? lol
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u/thoawaydatrash 11h ago
I like how you specified "from his ass" as if he could potentially let one rip from any of a number of different places.
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u/Beatboxin_dawg 11h ago
That looks like something you'd find on Canva what a lot of teachers use.
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u/Amazing_Trace 9h ago
Its not AI generated by the teacher most likely. Its a generic placeholder from a content creation program. On course content generation programs like canva, they have tons of these layouts.
The teacher just drags and drops it into the content page.
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u/thedazdul 6h ago
I mean, it's not saying AI is bad per se, just that it cannot be used for the assignment (which is of course not enforcable)
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u/MagnusTrench 11h ago
For this assignment, lol. The future is bleak.
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u/captainfarthing 8h ago edited 7h ago
On the other hand LLMs aren't going away so I think kids should be getting taught how to use them, as well as how to use their actual brain. Not teaching sex ed or teaching abstinence-only has never stopped teenagers having sex, it just makes their behaviour riskier.
LLMs became a thing when I was halfway through uni, they reacted by setting rules for when AI can and can't be used, and required it to be cited when it is used with a chat transcript provided. We had a class showing how to chat with Gemini, which included a live demo of how often it fucks up factual information and shouldn't be used for writing about things you don't already know.
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u/Sc00byUK 5h ago
When the enshittification of AI comes, you're going to wish you'd learned how to think (not you, but people using AI to do tasks they should be putting thought into). LLMs have cost too much not to need to be heavily monetised, and soon, and that's the issue (as well as the environmental one) that no one seems to be worrying about.
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u/2called_chaos 3h ago
The good thing is that we can host pretty good models on our own then. The really big problem is the AI boom will leave behind a wasteland of AI slop and dead sources of useful information I'm afraid. Like all the AI summaries are convenient as fuck, until what it summarizes is dead because it ain't getting organic traffic anymore.
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u/CheezwizOfficial 10h ago
That specification is what turned me from "what's the specific evidence that that 'sticker' is AI?" to "fucking AI slop".
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u/captainfarthing 8h ago edited 8h ago
Why? "[thing] is not allowed in [situation]" isn't nonsensical, it reads like text the teacher gave to the AI to turn into a graphic. It might sometimes be allowed, it might never be allowed, it doesn't imply either. It just means "this is the rule for the current situation."
"Calculators are not allowed for this assignment." I think I heard that a million times in school. I never interpreted that as "you'll be allowed to use a calculator another time".
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u/Next-Supermarket9538 9h ago
I don't think the standards or expectations are equivalent for the teacher and the student in this case. The student's job in doing the assignment to learn the material and demonstrate they have. A student using AI as a shortcut compromises that objective. The teacher's job is to teach the material and assess the student. Using AI in this way as a shortcut to produce a graphic not core to that teaching or assessment does not compromise that objective in anyway. False equivalences are not helpful to anyone.
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u/JustConversation7847 8h ago
Redditors love complaining about how over worked and underpaid teachers are but also want them to commission graphic designers 😂
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u/AdventuresOfKrisTin 7h ago
Why does this note to students need a graphic? They aren't trying to sell a product to a customer and need a flashy logo for it, they just need words on a page to convey the message lol.
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u/dream_metrics 6h ago
because they're trying to teach kids who respond better to interesting things than boring things
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u/TheShenanegous 3h ago
Blasphemy. They must learn to feel embraced by the cold unwavering certainty of black text against white space. There shall be no happiness, merrimaking or whimsy in the classroom.
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u/Single_Extension1810 3h ago
For real. It's wild people actually think this teacher has to be a graphic designer to type something in Microsoft Word.
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u/AdventuresOfKrisTin 3h ago
The amount of people insisting to me that this graphic was super totally very necessary to convey to students that they can’t use AI, is absolutely ridiculous lmao. Students don’t need to be engaged with instructions, this isn’t the course content this is simple assignment parameters. Red bold text at the top of the page is quite literally all that’s needed.
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u/1024thKilobyte 9h ago
Kids are impressionable though, and you should lead by example.
"Kids remember don't use AI, what, me? I can use AI because... because, well, we're not the same I'm the teacher"
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u/DonIncandenza 8h ago
I somewhat agree with you, but there's a difference between using AI responsibly as a quick tool by someone who got their M.A./M.S. the old fashioned way, and a student who doesn't know how to produce something on their own.
It's like putting a baby in an uber instead of teaching them to walk. And, if you work with these generations of kids you'd know that they are academic babies.
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u/ShotgunShine7094 5h ago
Yeah, I remember when I was 10 and asked my father if I could drive the car. He said no. But then he drove the car. When I pointed out the hypocrisy, he was like "we're not the same, I'm an adult and I have a license".
/s
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u/Next-Supermarket9538 9h ago
I don't think the teacher is trying to, or should be expected to, set an example of "don't ever use AI for anything". Why would you expect them to?
They just need to ensure for purposes of learning and demonstrating that learning that their students are not using AI on their school work because we know doing will compromise their learning. Seems completely reasonable to me.
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u/kigurumibiblestudies 5h ago
The standards are not the same, but students see AI and think all AI is fine. They don't handle nuance well. Happened at the school where I worked, it was a whole thing. Now teachers sneak their AI use better lol
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u/Sandy-the-Angel 4h ago
That's really the fault of the internet acting like ai use or not is an ideology rather than a specific thing the connotations of changes based on context. You can't use calculators on some exams either, but that doesn't mean you should never use them.
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u/RenningerJP 11h ago
So? The assignment doesn't say "AI is bad" it says not to use it to complete your test or quiz. Regardless of personal opinions on AI, this isn't internally inconsistent with itself.
Someone can be pro AI and still want you to complete academic work without it.
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u/Yakkamota 11h ago
It could also be intentionally ironic, or at least thematically relevant. Because obviously AI image taking about AI
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u/WisestAirBender 8h ago
It's like saying using a calculator or the internet isn't allowed on a test. While the teacher uses those things to make or grade it. No problem with it
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u/PositiveFriendlyGuy 10h ago
Yep. I just got my Google AI Professional certificate and the tests were protected from AI
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u/RenningerJP 10h ago
Interesting. Was it done in a testing facility like Pearson or can they actually monitor your personal machine to ensure no other apps are open?
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u/PositiveFriendlyGuy 10h ago
The latter; not sure how it detects it but you also cant copy or paste
Im sure you could type everything out but it would literally take longer than just doing it correctly lol
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u/EpicCyclops 8h ago
That's like open book exams I had in colllege. All the information is there. It's just that if you have to look things up beyond a note sheet you created with all the relevant equations on it, you will never get done in time. The professor was basically like, "try it and you'll fail, but you can try it." If you somehow were familiar enough with your notes and the textbook that you could look everything up uick enough, that means you studied hard enough that you know the content anyways.
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u/DespairOrNot 3h ago
Exactly. Like, it would hardly be hypocritical to type up a sign on a computer saying exams must be hand-written.
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u/domdaze 10h ago
it’s like when my grandma used to tell me not to smoke cigs while she smoked a cig. wasn’t very effective. guess what i did? smoked cigs.
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u/Ancient-Access8131 9h ago
More like as a math major ill tell students not to use a calculator for math 101, but ill use sagemath heavily for 400 level math classes.
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u/RenningerJP 10h ago
There's an inherent "cigarettes are bad for your health" argument there that is internally inconsistent. That's why I pointed out that this isn't saying AI is bad, you just can't use it to do your academic work because you won't learn if you do.
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u/adirion123 10h ago
"For this assignment" implies they might have assignments where they ask you to use ai similar to how we had assignments back in the day they said Internet wasn't allowed and sometimes it was allowed and sometimes we HAD to use it to show we knew how to properly vet and use the Internet.
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u/Fine-Structure-1299 7h ago
Instructor using AI to create instructions is not the same as you completing an assignment.
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u/yepyepyep123456 11h ago
I don’t see the equivalency of “If students can’t use AI, then teachers shouldn’t either.”
Environmental and ethical issues aside, the student is there to learn and the teacher is there to teach. These are not equal roles. This assignment presumably is for the student to demonstrate knowledge and develop skills. The teacher isn’t being tested or evaluated on their ability to draw a cartoon raccoon.
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u/gangofocelots 6h ago
Also, this is very visually AI and the teacher was specifically making a graphic to call attention to AI. It actually works better in this situation. It would be like writing "no Papyrus font allowed" in Papyrus
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u/VaporCarpet 7h ago
I don't support AI art, but there's also a difference between using AI art and having it do the thinking for you. It's not a drawing assignment.
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u/MystikTrailblazer 9h ago
I second that. I was not allowed to use a calculator until I passed the prerequisite math courses, proving I knew how to do the calculations manually and could explain what was happening v. just getting an answer.
Then it turned into a Math plus English class. Holy 🐄! I remember one teacher docking points on spelling, grammar, margin/spacing, etc.
Now that I'm older I can appreciate her more on reinforcing the discipline.
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u/knotatumah 9h ago
Because teachers are role models. Kids dont see adults as meat vehicles delivering content in the same way an accountant quantufies this year's kpi's on student success rates. Kids want to emulate, will emulate. They need positive reinforcement by those they look up to. And if the teacher is using ai, the student will begin to question that more than the lesson itself.
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u/ShotgunShine7094 5h ago
This is like saying teachers shouldn't drive because they are role models and their underage students will try to drive too.
You aren't allowed to drive because you're a child. The teacher is allowed to drive because they're an adult and have a license. You aren't allowed to use AI for the assignments because you're a student. The teacher is allowed to.
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u/bajungadustin 10h ago
No smoking signs often have cigarettes on them.
Also... This Doesn't seem like the intention is to be anti AI.. They are testing your knowledge.. Not AI's knowledge.. This seems completely fine and even more on point that they used AI for the notification.
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u/Halogen12 10h ago
AI was becoming a thing in my later years of university. I have a pretty distinct writing style and I'm confident none of my papers would have been flagged. Nothing better than a final exam essay written, pen on paper, in a gym with 100 other people scattered around. I know digital submissions are more efficient, but I guess I'm old school and rather enjoyed the satisfaction of turning in a really good impromptu essay.
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u/Rule_32 5h ago
How do you know that's not legit art? Like, seriously, are you assuming or is there some proof or evidence?
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u/1lessthen2isnot1 5h ago edited 4h ago
Ai has a very strong reputation for that type of font and paint stroke font as well
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u/secondandmany 5h ago
Also, the racoons booty has a glimmer for some reason in addition to the text
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u/GreatStateOfSadness 3h ago
Everything else aside, the current OpenAI tools seem to loooove those little action lines.
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u/The_Fools_Lantern 5h ago
It honestly just looks like Word clipart from like 2016.
Which honestly was probably used to train AI so who knows lol
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u/abucketofpuppies 2h ago
No offense, but it just looks like AI. The style is very distinct. The pixar eyes give it away, as well as the shading.
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u/Lettuce_Prey69 4h ago
I feel like we've reached a point where there's an entire generation of people on the internet that aren't even aware of what humans were capable of with art and digital art specifically.
They've developed along side the AI boom and now just assume every single thing is AI, and maybe they're right.
At the same time, all the digital creators I've followed in the past seem to have either stopped uploading work, paywalled it to prevent it from being scraped (for free anyway), or just outright given up and now use generative AI in some part of their workflow.
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u/Zebra-Ball 2h ago
Entire generation. Brother this AI shit is a few years old XD
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u/John--Darksoul 4h ago
AI has a very recognizable image style and uses some particular fonts over and over again
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u/queer-queeries 2h ago
It’s clear it’s not legit art because why would the teacher spend time creating an elaborate drawing just to tell students not to use AI? That and it has all the AI tells other people have mentioned in this thread. The fact that it says “test, quiz, or knowledge check” also gives away that it’s not clipart because “knowledge checks” aren’t a super common thing.
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u/Regular_Animal_6310 10h ago
one’s a message and the other would be cheating on a school assignment. It’s completely different.
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u/gigglefarting 6h ago
Being a graphic designer is not part of a teacher’s duty, but taking tests with their own knowledge is a student’s duty
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u/Emergency_Goat_6719 11h ago
I don't see any hypocrisy in an educator using AI but telling you not too. They've spent years training and can verify the output of AI. AI is not a substitute for learning or bypassing the opportunity to fail and learning from that. AI, if applied properly, can simply speed up their job.
However, don't use AI to tell people not to use AI. That just pisses people off. That's just stupid.
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u/I_Died_Once BLUE 11h ago
I am so glad for me and my kid to be out of school and out of the way from dealing with the AI accusations.
Didn't they run thesis's from the 1800's and they came up as AI? What an exhaustive argument to have.
The kids can't go to the bathroom without being accused of having used AI to do it, yet here the school district is, pushing the teacher to use AI to automate as many functions of their day as possible with it.
Kids are going to buck on this HARD
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u/smurfopolis 7h ago
Jesus Christ, the teacher isn't the one doing the assignment to learn something... the fact you can't put together why they're different is more than mildly infuriating.
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u/GameTheory27 10h ago
The test proctor is THE ENEMY. Report them to homeland security so they will be a mandatory contestant on next weeks Running Man. Watching will be mandatory
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u/DecisionJolly128 8h ago
My professor grades my assignments with AI all the text is AI generated in his responses
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u/archpawn 1h ago
I've also had tests where I wasn't allowed to use a computer, but the test was clearly made on a computer.
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u/tyler21307 11h ago
Wait until you hear the stats on how many teachers use AI to grade assignments.