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Prose or Con, can you detect AI writing?

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Prose or Con, can you detect AI writing?

There was a recent thread about a tool that "proves" a human actually wrote something via an animated edit history ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699969 ). I commented that I can recognize AI writing regardless of such tools, and received some pushback...so, I wanted to be sure I wasn't lying to myself, and made a little game that shows samples or writing in a variety of styles, and you pick whether it's human or AI. It's harder than I expected, especially with current frontier models, but I think AI prose is still detectable.

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