|  | ▲ | gowld a year ago | 
|  | ...according to this company's AI detector, so not validated or validatable by anyone else. | 
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|  | ▲ | burkaman a year ago | parent [-] | 
|  | Even ignoring the AI detection, their simple graph of average word count over time is incredibly suspicious. I can't think of any explanation for that other than rampant AI usage. | 
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 |  | ▲ | zztop44 a year ago | parent [-] |  |  | What about the algorithm changing over time to favor longer posts and content creators on the platform adapting to the change? I suspect you’d see the same pattern with the average length of popular non-music YouTube videos over time. |  |  | |
 |  | ▲ | burkaman a year ago | parent [-] |  |  | Good point, that's a good explanation. I think the timing with ChatGPT and how consistent it was for 5+ years before that make for very strong circumstantial evidence, but you're right that there is at least one other good possibility. | 
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