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jvanderbotlast Saturday at 3:29 PM1 replyview on HN

Of course there are people who will sell you a tool to do this. I sincerely doubt it's any good. But then again they can apparently fingerprint human authors fairly well using statistics from their writing, so what do I know.


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Al-Khwarizmilast Saturday at 6:15 PM

There are tools that claim accuracies in the 95%-99% range. This is useless for many actual applications, though. For example, in teaching, you really need to not have false positives at all. The alternative is failing some students because a machine unfairly marked their work as machine-generated.

And anyway, those accuracies tend to be measured on 100% human-generated vs. 100% machine-generated texts by a single LLM... good luck with texts that contain a mix of human and LLM contents, mix of contents by several LLMs, or an LLM asked to "mask" the output of another.

I think detection is a lost cause.