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WhitneyLandtoday at 7:54 PM1 replyview on HN

"Text is simply not information dense enough to be able to decode some arbitrary signal of provenance from it...it's a bad fiction to perpetuate that any of this is anything more than tarot card reading."

Not true at all. Pangram is highly effective and has a very low false positive rate.

The post here is impressive for a small project, it looks like they independently thought of one of the core ideas Pangram uses of creating twins to compare.

You can see how it works here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14873


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hgoeltoday at 8:31 PM

So, if the decision from Pangram determined, on every assignment, if you would be expelled from university for plagiarism, would that be acceptable to you regardless of how you actually did the work?

If you would not be okay with that, what level of consequence would be acceptable for the output from this tool?

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