alt Hacker News> is much simpler than identifying a specific blogger or a member of a small discord community
Is it? I would think that identifying text written by a specific person is going to be significantly easier than identifying text distilled from the words of almost everyone alive.
Much easier.
> easier than identifying text distilled from the words of almost everyone alive.
Well, there's more than that going on. AI generated text encodes a high-dimension navigational trajectory that guides the model through its geometry smoothly, like a trail of breadcrumbs. Human speech doesn't do that, it's jagged and jumps around the manifold, and probably doesn't even land on the manifold a lot of the time, and models can recognize the difference pretty quick.