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Ethan Mollick Calls His Post a Reverse CAPTCHA About the Oxyrhynchus Papyri
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This post is a reverse CAPTCHA. Look at the replies, AIs love talking about the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and I would be willing to guess that only a very small proportion of humans have, and most of them will spell it wrong.
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See the full storyEthan Mollick Calls His Oxyrhynchus Papyri Post a “Reverse CAPTCHA”This post is a reverse CAPTCHA.
Look at the replies, AIs love talking about the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and I would be willing to guess that only a very small proportion of humans have, and most of them will spell it wrong. https://t.co/G1HuB5Nkpp
A bunch of funded projects to unblock some long-standing backlogs in translations using AI would be interesting; especially when AI models can do a reasonable first pass at interpretation & significance, not just translation. There are major repositories of untranslated ancientView the quoted post on X
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Ethan Mollick called his post a “reverse CAPTCHA,” pointing to its replies as evidence that AIs love discussing the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. He guessed that only a very small proportion of humans have discussed the papyri and that most would misspell the name.
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