Tag: Authorship

Blurred Boundaries: How Important Is Distinguishing Human and Machine Voices?

As machine-generated text becomes harder to distinguish from human writing and translation, the author proposes a shift in focus: from how the content was produced to its substance and level of quality.
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A Fourth Type of Translation

Prompted by his own experience of co-authoring an article with artificial intelligence (AI), the author explores a “fourth type of translation” — that between human and machine. He considers the protocols for AI collaboration: At what point does assistance cross into ghostwriting? When does augmentation become abdication?