Mozilla Adapts 'Fakespot' Into an AI-Detecting Firefox Add-on (omgubuntu.co.uk) 12
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Want to find out if the text you're reading online was written by an real human or spat out by a large language model trying to sound like one? Mozilla's Fakespot Deepfake Detector Firefox add-on may help give you an indication. Similar to online AI detector tools, the add-on can analyse text (of 32 words or more) to identify patterns, traits, and tells common in AI generated or manipulated text.
It uses Mozilla's proprietary ApolloDFT engine and a set of open-source detection models. But unlike some tools, Mozilla's Fakespot Deepfake Detector browser extension is free to use, does not require a signup, nor an app download. "After installing the extension, it is simple to highlight any text online and request an instant analysis. Our Detector will tell you right away if the words are likely to be written by a human or if they show AI patterns," Mozilla says.
Fakespot, acquired by Mozilla in 2023, is best known for its fake product review detection tool which grades user-submitted reviews left on online shopping sites. Mozilla is now expanding the use of Fakespot's AI tech to cover other kinds of online content. At present, Mozilla's Fakespot Deepfake Detector only works with highlighted text on websites but the company says it image and video analysis is planned for the future.
The Fakespot web site will also analyze the reviews on any product-listing pages if you paste in its URL.
It uses Mozilla's proprietary ApolloDFT engine and a set of open-source detection models. But unlike some tools, Mozilla's Fakespot Deepfake Detector browser extension is free to use, does not require a signup, nor an app download. "After installing the extension, it is simple to highlight any text online and request an instant analysis. Our Detector will tell you right away if the words are likely to be written by a human or if they show AI patterns," Mozilla says.
Fakespot, acquired by Mozilla in 2023, is best known for its fake product review detection tool which grades user-submitted reviews left on online shopping sites. Mozilla is now expanding the use of Fakespot's AI tech to cover other kinds of online content. At present, Mozilla's Fakespot Deepfake Detector only works with highlighted text on websites but the company says it image and video analysis is planned for the future.
The Fakespot web site will also analyze the reviews on any product-listing pages if you paste in its URL.
Bullshit (Score:3)
This is proof Mozilla needs to be disbanded and Firefox put under proper management.
If the Mozilla foundation had found a way to tell what's "AI generated text", this would be generating headlines world wide and they'd be promoting it as an incredible breakthrough, not some bullet-list feature on a fucking plug-in. Literally nobody else has been able to do this, and students across the world (for example) are currently getting dicked over by "AI detection tools" created and promoted by scammers that do not work and never have done.
Human beings, alas, will continue to be the only people who can determine whether text is *suspicious* or not, but even then that's the only judgement we can make. Oh, it uses em-dashes? The story contains the phrase "Since them my family has been blowing up my phone"? Well, there's a good chance it's AI generated. But that's all we can do at this stage.
The current management of Mozilla needs to resign. They've turned the most important open source project into a harbor for scammers. They *are* scammers. We need to take Firefox away from them.
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The word you are looking for is "fork".
Some organization who know how to maintain large open source projects would need to fork Firefox and maintain it in a way that it can survive even when Mozilla would abandon it. I see GNU and the FSF in the position to organize something like that. GNU already has a Firefox fork, even though it is limited by defaulting to an free-software-only addon repository.
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Human beings, alas, will continue to be the only people who can determine whether text is *suspicious* or not, but even then that's the only judgement we can make.
Judging by recent political events, I'm dubious humans can do even that, especially when it conflicts with what they want/hope to be true.
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What Reviews? (Score:2)
Reviews are being replaced by AI review summaries just like how Question sections have disappeared. You can still get to those on Home Depot, but Amazon has completely neutered that feature of their store rendering it near useless.
Further, Amazon is currently promoting video reviews but those are actually paid ads. If you're a high enough influencer you can be paid to submit video reviews and you get a commission if someone watches your review prior to buying the product. Have you noticed how the amount
Seems to me it runs on their cloud (Score:3)
Though the 4 engines called by the extension have code on github, the extension stops working if I pull the Ethernet cable (or stop network through the system scripts, in my case /etc/init.d/net.enp4s0 stop ) . So I guess the engines are open source, but the training data are at mozilla.org. Which would be fine but they don't make clear that the text under analysis is being sent outside.