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Re: Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM

#61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve used titles like that for thirty years.

I'm going to ask the qustion I ask everyone who makes the claim that they wrote like that for years: Can you show us a link from prior 2022 that you wrote like that?

No, of course not. It’s all corporate internal documentation.

I suppose my high school essays were not. Apologies, but those are lost.

Re: Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM

#63
I was wondering the same today, when i got this search result from Kagi: https://linuxvox.com/blog/conntrack-linux/

Note that on Kagi, you can click "Report this page as AI-generated" [1]. Unfortunately though, my last report from January is still "under review" :/

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/slopstop.html

Re: Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM

#64

They cannot. Unfortunately many believe they can, and it is impossible to disprove. So now real people need to write avoiding certain styles, because a lot of other people have decided those are "LLM clues." Bullets, EM Dash, certain common English phases or words (e.g. Delve, Vibrant, Additionally, etc)[0]. Basicaly you need to sprinkle subtle mistakes, or lower the quality of your written communications to avoid ac…

Someone with native fluency in American English can (should) be able to tell the difference between human writing and unpolished AI copy-paste. Essentially 0 people use emoji to create a bulleted list. Nobody unintentionally cites fake legal precedents or non-existent events, articles, or papers. Even the “it’s not X, it’s Y” structure, in the presence of other suspicious style/tone cues signals LLM text.

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Re: Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM

#65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve used titles like that for thirty years.

I'm going to ask the qustion I ask everyone who makes the claim that they wrote like that for years: Can you show us a link from prior 2022 that you wrote like that?

Nobody owes you evidence for your witch hunts.

Re: Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM

#66
Instead of trying to detect AI in the final string of text the industry seems to be moving towards proof of process. version history, drafts protocol or even UI level logging of keystrokes. If i can not prove i spent three hours in a doc via a series of incremental diffs, the humanness of my prose becomes irrelevant in a high stakes environment. Detection is a lagging indicator the only leading indicator is the audit trail of the labor itself.

Re: Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM

#67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm going to ask the qustion I ask everyone who makes the claim that they wrote like that for years: Can you show us a link from prior 2022 that you wrote like that?

Nobody owes you evidence for your witch hunts.

Sure, but, look, we have seen these claims so many times, that if it were true by now someone would have linked at least one archived blog post to show that it is, indeed, how humans used to write.

The lack of a single example is very telling.

Re: Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM

#69

They cannot. Unfortunately many believe they can, and it is impossible to disprove. So now real people need to write avoiding certain styles, because a lot of other people have decided those are "LLM clues." Bullets, EM Dash, certain common English phases or words (e.g. Delve, Vibrant, Additionally, etc)[0]. Basicaly you need to sprinkle subtle mistakes, or lower the quality of your written communications to avoid ac…

Someone with native fluency in American English can (should) be able to tell the difference between human writing and unpolished AI copy-paste. Essentially 0 people use emoji to create a bulleted list. Nobody unintentionally cites fake legal precedents or non-existent events, articles, or papers. Even the “it’s not X, it’s Y” structure, in the presence of other suspicious style/tone cues signals LLM text.

I do use bullets and emojis
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