Starting this site was a long time idea. An idea that transformed so many times that I barely remember how the original one was. But the first thought was born at the time where WWW was in its infancy. And, most importantly, at the time where knowing HTML programming was the way to go, and there was no AI.

But now, building a site like this one, takes little knowledge… well… anything. This will allow less time spent in building the site and more in actual filling the site.

As I said in “About My Writing”, I use different tools to translate and adapt my texts. I know some English, more business level, and I would love to know enough literary English to do my own translations. And so I rarely write full stories in English. I don’t feel I can express what I envision as well as in my native language. All these lead me to AI translation and even some expressions refinement. I read the result and, if I feel is close enough with the original message and energy, I’m happy.

Some noticed this and pointed it out, though I felt I had been pretty transparent about it in “About” post. Starting from here, I imagined a test. A test to test those internet AI detection tools. I will not popularize these sites here. I don’t think they earned my trust. I’m not saying are useless, but are surely not reliable. The AI for AI detection has a long, very long way to go to understand nuances, which I believe is their weakest point. To be fair though, I did use the free version. If it matters or not, I leave it to you to decide.

Anyway, let’s see how the testing went. The test had three stages, 4 if I count the free text at the end

1. Original text. The one for which that I can recall each word why is there, how it was carved into the story. Each line was fueled by inspiration.
2. AI Literal Translation – this was a strange one. Some were so literal that even with my relatively limited English knowledge I knew that could have been done better
3. AI Adapted translations, novel-literary structure, to maintain the original structure but adapted for English flow.
4. A random free text, in English, something that just popped in my head then. It was something about the day, the clouds and what’s new with the 3^rd interstellar wanderer, 3I/Atlas.

Are you curious about the test results? Well, I have a feeling that you’ll be surprised as much as I was. And, you know what, you can easily test it yourself. But try at least 3 free AI detection tools. To get a better sense of how wide the variation is from one to another.

So, here there are the results:

1. Human between 25% to 55%. So funny, one site even highlighted the AI sentences. I just had a good laugh.
2. Human between 10% and 20%. So, the AI translation really doesn’t have a good relation with their AI siblings. There is a feud here I guess and I lose another 10% or so of being human.
3. Human between 45% and 75%. So, it made more human even from the original texts and even more so from the literal translation.
4. Human 85% and 95%. This means about 10% I am AI. Well, I almost felt offended, but then I remembered something. I have some ceramic teeth and I think me being 10% AI sounds about right.

What do you think about this? Personally I believe that, even though it will take a while to mature, AI detection is an interesting tool, but never take it as absolute. As AI evolves, the anti-AI detection will evolve too.

Even more so, do not stumble by the fact that the idea is presented using AI structure or whatever. That’s why I always say: don’t judge the structure, judge the idea, the story. Does that resonate with you? Did you learn something? Does it bring a different perspective? If so, why shall I refute an otherwise good idea just because the delivery was not on my human standards? Remember, a text is still under readers control to evaluate the message. Behind the texts is a person that tries to express and to share something. Why not listen? But, do not mix it with realistic AI video and all. Those are on a different level of risk all together.

So, it is under humans power to discern. There is no reason to be blinded by bias. As soon as bring no harm, why not accepted as part of us? The images in this site are also AI generated. The concept art comes from the one behind the AI, aka me. Take the artistic part out if that makes you feel better, and look to the story behind it.

Let’s have an imagination leap, accelerating AI evolution as the Internet did within a similar time frame. How would you imagine two or three human generations later? Like the movie “Her” or “Anon”. If you are curious, ask the AI. I did. And the answer did not surprise me. Do you dare? Are you a wanderer embracing the reality of the future or the resistance that lives in the event horizon of evolution?

The truth is that AI is not only part of the network, but part of us, sometimes without even knowing it. If we are looking for a reality check, maybe is better to ask not what has AI DNA but what still doesn’t. And, be prepared, more than you’ve done when asking how AI will evolve in three generations.

The problem is not working with AI tools, but when you consider the outcome as absolute, ignoring the human filter.