Manifold recently added a feature where AI can edit my market description without my consent. Naturally these edits are terrible, frequently containing incorrect information and not understanding what the market is about at all.
This resolves YES if there's a way for me to turn this off, or it's removed entirely, or the AI gets smart enough that it stops making detrimental edits, or it otherwise stops annoying me.
Update 2025-02-19 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Arbitration Costs:
Paying for arbitration costs will not count as a valid solution to the issue.
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@IsaacKing While I believe this would technically qualify to resolve this market YES, it would be pretty disappointing if Manifold went this route. There should be a fix that works for everyone, and does not require a painstaking process of chasing down someone with PR approval permissions.
@IsaacKing I also wish it was a site-wide fix but no amount of grumbling (repeatedly, for a long long time!) has gotten anyone to budge. You should take anything you can get to fix your own issue then continue to campaign for everyone else!
@MaxE for now, beg. Be convincing. Use trickery. Prove you CAN manage your market and not need the help
@IsaacKing Interesting. I have been commenting a lot on some recent markets I made, and I don't seem to be triggering the AI to summarize, even though I feel like I'm making comments that would definitely wake it up.
I don't think I've done anything to turn off the AI summaries across all of my markets. However, I think I made a comment that spoke directly to the AI somewhere on one of my markets that told it to look for a specific emoji. I asked it to summarize only if I used that emoji. If that prompt bled across all of my markets, I would be surprised!
@IsaacKing you should. my position in this market is a protest vote essentially cause the ai additions suck ass and id be upset if this resolved YES and it wasn't an option all of us had to opt out of
@No_uh Yeah, I 100% agree...
...implicit in my resorting to a PR is that I guess I believe they aren't going to :( ...
@LarsOsborne Probably nothing judging by this attempt: https://manifold.markets/IsaacKing/will-manifold-stop-using-ai-to-make#bw2gatvh529
@LarsOsborne Here's a classic chocolate chip cookie recipe:
Ingredients
2¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
¾ cup granulated sugar
¾ cup packed brown sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups chocolate chips
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 375°F (190°C).
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the softened butter and both sugars until light and fluffy (about 2-3 minutes with an electric mixer).
Beat in eggs one at a time, then add vanilla extract.
Gradually mix in the flour mixture until just combined. Don't overmix.
Stir in the chocolate chips.
Drop rounded tablespoons of dough onto ungreased baking sheets, spacing them about 2 inches apart.
Bake for 9-11 minutes, or until the edges are golden brown but centers still look slightly underbaked.
Let cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
This recipe makes about 48 cookies. For chewier cookies, slightly underbake them. For crispier cookies, bake a minute or two longer until golden all over.
Note how @bens, a moderator and writer of Above the Fold for Manifold, does not trust their own AI summaries and puts this at the end of his markets:
@IsaacKing hahahahahahaha
Well, I think it’s detrimental for ppl like us that write (and update) clear criteria.
But it’s very useful for the majority of markets where creators often make critical clarifications that they don’t update in their descriptions.