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    8 days ago

    To really be sure would require knowing what software is actually doing

    i am pretty sure you do know whether you wrote a text, or it just magically spawned in front of your eyes out of thin air - you don’t need degree in computer science for that.

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      8 days ago

      Also no, you don’t know what it’s doing so you could be blindsighted by the latest AI update making unexpected changes. Not only fron good-intentioned features but also bugs or malicious anti-features after the CEO throws their toys out of the Twitter pram.

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        8 days ago

        no malicious update can force you to generate a text and file it in court as your own work.

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          Consider that a program can edit the file while running at any point, not merely during user input. Like a virus with access to user’s files it could even edit a document that’s not even being displayed to the user on the screen.