What does it say about me that when I run my writing through one of those "detect if AI" tools I seldom see a value of less than 70% confidence that the writing was AI generated?

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spoiler 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I know this is a spicy take, but it probably just means you're more eloquent in your writing than most netizens...

And that's not really a hard bar to clear if you look at how people write comments online (including places like GitHub).

Anyone that uses punctuation, and capitalises words, probably automatically gets past the 70% confidence line.

	▲	podgietaru 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It baffles me when I see ostensibly smart people refusing to click shift. Especially programmers. I know you can do it! I've seen you use curly brackets!

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charlieflowers 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

AI detectors don't work.

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bluebarbet 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What it says (and this fact is not popular around here) is that you write better than the average person.

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crthpl 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

have you tried pangram? it's basically the only good AI detector, and they have nearly 0 false positives

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ttamslam 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> and they have nearly 0 false positives

I really don't see how this can be possible unless they're accepting abysmal recall? Perhaps I'm missing something fundamental here, but the idea that AI and non-AI assisted text can be separated with "nearly 0 false positives" just says to me that it's really just a filter for the weakest, most obvious AI generated text. Is that valuable?

	▲	levocardia 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Pangram's explicit pitch is extremely low false positives, accepting that a higher rate of false negatives is acceptable.

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AndrewKemendo 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Simple: The derived variance in your word usage and sequences, is outside the mean distribution range, that would be labeled as AI generated, given this specific evaluation algorithm

It’s not nondeterministic

you can probably do the shannon entropy calculation yourself if you understand what the evaluation algorithm is

That said…if the evaluator is non-deterministic, then there’s no value in the estimate anyway

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rogerrogerr 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It probably means that your writing stylistically is close to the vector-space average of "good" writing, which is what AI produces.

FWIW, your comment history here does not look like AI at all to me, and I think I have a very (maybe too?) high sensitivity to AI slop.

	▲	aidenn0 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I haven't tried my HN comments; I've only tried things spanning more than a few sentences and that I've put more effort into. I only discovered this when my son put an e-mail I wrote to his teacher that he was CC'd on into the tool on his school iPad.

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ilogik 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

try it with something published before 2022. do you still get the same results?

I really doubt those tools are good for anything

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john_strinlai 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

about you? not much. but i wouldnt spin up a blog, or even longer comments here, if you want to keep your sanity.

the amount of "that is obvious ai slop" comments i see on mine or other people's genuine non-ai writing has discouraged me from sharing anything more than roughly a paragraph for probably the rest of my life.