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> False positives aren’t a big problem.

You will think that until something your wrote with your own mind and hands is falsely accused of being AI generated.

“Sorry alkonaut, your account has been suspended due to suspicious activity.”

“We have chatgpt too alkonaut! No need to copy paste it for us”

“It is my sad duty to inform you that we have reasons to believe that you have commited academic misconduct. As such we have suspended your maintenance grant, and you will be removed from the university register.”




False positives must be zero in that context. Not when I choose which blog posts to spend 30 minutes on. Quite different.


Someone is writing the blog post. That is the person who cares if you mistake their hard work for AI slop.


Exactly. And in that context I really don’t care. Similarly if I wrote the blog post. People can leave after the first paragraph because it’s uninteresting. If they leave because it looks generated it’s the same thing. Writing in an interesting way is as skill. Writing in a ”human” way is probably quickly becoming a skill now too. But I think they were probably always closely related.


There are people who write to help illuminate others.

There are also people who use bots to write to raise the communication noise floor so no comprehension can occur.

Its all about cost and intent.




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