Show HN: I'm building an AI-proof writing tool. How would you defeat it?

- Screencap and OCR the prompt

- feed it to an llm to answer

- use a tool [1] to emulate human typing cadence.

- Use a tool to send mouse events to the browser window.

[1] https://multilogin.com/blog/paste-as-human-typing/

not sure if you have any feedback at the end but if you do the alternative is feedback poisoning in your training set to mark AI stuff as real and real stuff as fake. The former is automatable and if there were a good reason you could probably mechanical-Turk a large number of people at low cost to do it for real and give feedback that they were actually AIs.

I used this:

#!/usr/bin/python3 import subprocess import time import random with open("/tmp/x") as f: t = f.read() for c in t: subprocess.call([ "xdotool", "type", c ]) time.sleep(abs(random.gauss(0,0.07)))

And pasted a random Hacker News comment:

Authenticity Score 81 Highly Authentic

Words per minute: 162 Keystroke variance: 52ms Paste attempts: 0 Window/tab switches: 4 Pauses (≥10s): 0 DOM manipulations: 0

You failed.

>Pasting and DOM manipulation are disabled to ensure all writing is original.

>We track telemetry such as typing speed, pauses, tab changes, and window focus events.

People figure out ways around this for like...Runescape bots and other low-stake situations. I don't think it would hold up to anything other than casual users. Seems like an agent could whip something up in Auto-HotKey or something.

I get this is the extreme end, but if this gets popular enough, can't you write like a custom 'keyboard' driver that just takes AI input and 'types' it? Random delay between keystrokes, whatever....

It also can't be used to verify existing work, right? I can't see if a student's essay is LLM-written. Is there any real-world use you see? Or is this just a fun toy?

> Open chatgpt in second tab > Type what chatgpt says yourself

The only "AI proof" writing tool is those blue books you take exams on in college.