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Musings on language, artificial intelligence, machine translation, scams, and related topics

A study of AI detectors

Is It AI? A Semi-Scientific Study of AI Detectors

I present a semi-scientific study of six publicly available AI detectors that purport to detect whether a text was written by generative AI or a human. I study the accuracy of these AI detectors with a sample of different scientific texts which were 100% written by humans, and one text

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Vetting potential clients to avoid scams

Vetting Potential Clients

Tips for fellow translators, interpreters, and language professionals to help them vet potential clients and avoid being scammed or left with unpaid invoices.

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Paypal scam

A very sophisticated PayPal invoice scam!

I woke up this morning to an invoice over $500.00 in my email inbox to my personal PayPal account, sent via PayPal. It looked real. It felt real. All the links were pointing to the correct URLs. The email didn’t seem to have been spoofed. Even the funky letter/number combination

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conversing with ChatGPT

A Conversation with ChatGPT

With all the hype about ChatGPT, I decided to try it out myself, asking it to explain the concept of neural machine translation and a more exotic concept from my particle physics research past. Feel free to compare its explanation of NMT to my earlier blog posts. The upshot of

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Business Structures

NCTA Workshop: To LLC or not to LLC?

The workshop

What, if any, is the difference between a sole proprietor and a freelancer?
What’s the difference between a DBA (doing business as) and a fictitious business name?
Should I form an LLC, if so, do I need to hire a lawyer?
Several of my

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