Written by Emilija Varnelytė

Lecturer Kotryna Garanšvili began her presentation, Lost in AI Translation: How to Use Artificial Intelligence in Writing and Translating Literature?  by addressing everyone in the room and inquiring ‘Has anyone here used AI before?’ and almost all hands went up in the auditorium. But while modern technology is powerful and used by the majority, it raises a new issue: AI-generated texts are becoming harder to recognize by each passing day.

On October 17th,  Vilnius Pilaite Gymnasium 12th-grade students had a chance to attend an interactive lecture and tackle the issue of AI writing. How AI is changing the way we write, read, and think about language? The session focused on a simple, but surprisingly tricky question: Can you tell if a text is written by AI or a human?

Dr. Kotryna Garanšvili notes how AI generates text, ‘It doesn’t write like a human. Unlike humans, it doesn’t create - it simply generates.’

To test the understanding of AI writing, students took part in a short exercise - ten examples of short texts, each with one version written by a human and one by AI. After each example, patterns of AI writing, such as overuse of certain structures (like “not X, but Y”) or invention of incorrect information, also known as AI hallucination, were highlighted by the lecturer. 

The presentation ended with an important reminder from Dr. Garanšvili: ‘AI isn’t something to avoid, but something to understand and use wisely.

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