ai and ml
Startup insists it's not trying to help anyone cheat the system - honest!
It's bad enough that you used AI to write a research paper instead of composing it yourself. Now, you can take the extra step to hide the evidence of your sloth. A startup has decided academics need a way to hide LLM tells, yet they insist their goal isn’t to support bad habits among boffins. AI humanizers are nothing new - take a cursory look online and you’ll find that companies pushing AI that helps AI writing sound less like AI wrote it are a dime a dozen. None, says the team behind Academic Humanizer, have been specifically tailored to papers and grant proposals. Thankfully for the world’s lazy academics unwilling to actually do their jobs, that’s now changed. “The problem is that AI-assisted drafts come out generic and verbose, with … inflated phrasing, and over-long sentences,” University of Minnesota associate professor and cofounder of MorphMind, the company behind the tool, Jie Ding, wrote in its GitHub readme. “They also drift from the author's own voice and lose the precision scholarship depends on.”
A previous version of that statement, written prior to a recent readme update, lays the point of the tool bare. Academic Humanizer, the opening of the readme read until an update five days ago, is designed to “strip the tells of AI writing from papers and grant proposals, without flattening the precise, evidence-bound voice scholarship requires.”
