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yodonyesterday at 7:17 PM1 replyview on HN

If you could actually detect AI content with high accuracy, you would sell it as a service and print money, but you can't, so you force all the rest of us to wade through posts like yours, claiming to tell the rest of us what is and isn't AI, which are FAR more annoying, disruptive, and low signal than the post you're commenting on, which is intelligent, adds to the conversation, and is, by my read, almost certainly actually human authored, just written by someone who knows how to write.


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usefulposteryesterday at 7:20 PM

I'm not affiliated with it in any way, but you might want to check out the leading model https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14873 and the mixed authorship detection https://www.pangram.com/blog/pangram-3-0-technical. LLM detection has come a long way since the first GPTZero.

Human heuristics - I've prompted millions of tokens across every frontier model iteration for all manner of writing styles and purposes - also helps greatly.

Concerning to me are long-time posters who (perhaps unknowingly) advance the decline of this human community by encouraging the people breaking HN guidelines. Perhaps spending a few hours on Moltbook might help develop such a heuristic, since "someone who knows how to write" is just a Claude model with a link to the blogpost.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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