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Dave Gallagher's avatar

I just received a response from Congressman Ciscomani regarding my email urging him to do the right thing and advocate for the swearing in of Adelita Grijalva.

Ciscomani wrote that Speaker Johnson would swear in Adelita Grijalva when the House resumed. Ciscomani continued and wrote that, Should legislation come before the House concerning Adelita Grijalva, he would keep in mind my request that he do the right thing.

I got the feeling from Ciscomani's response that Adelita Grijalva would not be sworn in anytime soon.

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Richard Grayson's avatar

I discovered my first AI detector on Grammarly last evening. First I took something written at my behest by ChatGPT, and it said that 0% of it was generated by AI. Then I took a diary entry I wrote in 1972 and it said that 100% of it was generated by AI.

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Hank Stephenson's avatar

Yeah, AI detectors are hit or miss (The Bible and Shakespeare both famously get flagged). But sometimes you can just smell the slop, and they're helpful for confirming.

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Richard Grayson's avatar

Do the Bible and Shakespeare get flagged as AI? I don’t know how the AI detector I used could have thought this was “100% AI”

https://thought.is/a-20-year-olds-diary-entries-from-late-may-1972/

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Hank Stephenson's avatar

I just ran it through GPTzero for fun and came up 100% human.

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Richard Grayson's avatar

OK. Yeah, that must be a good one. I suspect there is a lot of variation in quality with AI detectors.

You can probably not get flagged as AI if you tell ChatGPT to write whatever you need written as being "in the style of Laszlo Krasznahorkai" or some other Nobel-prize winning author.

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Hank Stephenson's avatar

That's fun i haven't tried that.

I've asked it to "write like me" and given it a bunch of samples, but it still reads like ai slop and gets flagged. And I've written stuff with AI (not for the newsletters) and then edited like one sentence and then run it through an ai detector and it has like flagged the only human-written sentence as ai. So yah, hit or miss.

But generally a 100% match is pretty hard to argue against.

I am so thoroughly geeked out on this junk that I'm basically a human gpt detector at this point. Here's a few fun ones icymi

https://www.arizonaagenda.com/p/is-chatgpt-running-for-office?utm_source=publication-search

https://www.arizonaagenda.com/p/building-a-better-gps?utm_source=publication-search

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Dave Gallagher's avatar

With all the money that Tucson spends on the Tucson Police Department, I don't understand why private security needs to be paid to protect Tucsonans who drive and ride the bus.

Kelly wins, Ciscomani loses argument over Trump's second government shutdown.

Trump's attempted take over of higher education, including Pima Community College, does warrant a lawsuit from PCC for the purpose of our community college receiving allocated funds designed to serve students.

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Wyatt Kanyer's avatar

I agree, Dave. It would be wise for council to use existing resources within TPD to enforce security measures if there are enough available officers. Sun Tran already contracts about $1.7 million in security, primarily for the transit centers. It would make sense to use TPD CSOs (and a limited number of officers, as they are likely too busy with other violent crime calls and TPD is already facing a staffing issue for a community our size) to patrol transit stations. I also think it wise to pay riders or impoverished community members as community safety monitors who can gather data about which stops have the highest incidence of loitering, drug use concerns, and other issues that have finally crossed council’s radar.

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