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Why should HN pay for a questionable service when it already gets crowdsourced results for free?
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I’m not saying whether I think you’re right or wrong, but AI text detectors don’t work and never will.
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This has been pretty well studied. Pangram is about as good at an expert human with a 98% detection rate and <2% false positive, for flagging AI generated text.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.15654

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I'm open to being convinced, but the study you've linked me is limited specifically to professionally written, proofread journalism from 8 publications over a span of a little over a single year.

It's not exactly a wide breadth of varied text for such an all-encompassing task.

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Doesn't stop charlatans from creating startups promising to make it work :)
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