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gcrtoday at 11:36 AM4 repliesview on HN

For what it’s worth, Pangram thinks this article is fully human-written: https://www.pangram.com/history/f5f68ce9-70ac-4c2b-b0c3-0ca8...


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Aurornistoday at 1:05 PM

The AI writing detectors are very unreliable. This is important to mention because they can trigger in the opposite direction (reporting human written text as AI generated) which can result in false accusations.

It’s becoming a problem in schools as teachers start accusing students of cheating based on these detectors or ignore obvious signs of AI use because the detectors don’t trigger on it.

xmcqdpt2today at 11:42 AM

Then pangram isn't very good, because that article is full of Claude-isms.

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croemertoday at 12:28 PM

Pangram doesn't reliably detect individual LLM-generated phrases or paragraphs among human written text.

It seems to look at sections of ~300 words. And for one section at least it has low confidence.

I tested it by getting ChatGPT to add a paragraph to one of my sister comments. Result is "100% human" when in fact it's only 75% human.

Pangram test result: https://www.pangram.com/history/1ee3ce96-6ae5-4de7-9d91-5846...

ChatGPT session where it added a paragraph that Pangram misses: https://chatgpt.com/share/69d4faff-1e18-8329-84fa-6c86fc8258...

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timdiggermtoday at 12:43 PM

So you're saying Pangram isn't worth much?