In reply to @BetterCallMedhi · Sep 9, 2026anyone who thinks a tool can tell you if a text is AI written or not with 100% certainty is fucking retarded
these detectors are literally just checking text against basic metrics like perplexity/ sentence burstiness to spot predictable patterns BUT
modern LLMs are trained explicitly to match human language distributions…when your model's entire objective is to minimize the statistical gap between its outputs and actual human writing, the overlap becomes massivethat makes binary classification an absolute nightmare, sincce human and AI text distributions basically sit on top of each other now, pulling a threshold out of thin air guarantees a mountain of false positives &false negatives
Agree. I went down the rabbit hole from the other side: trying to prove a text was provably written by a human. Keyboard hardware events, breathing patterns via mic. Ambient light changes via camera and photosensor, even palm-rest temperature changes to detect hands.
All technically possible. All hackable with even a smidge of curiosity.
So now my litmus test is just: do I get the sense that the author cares? imho you can't fake that. I'm okay if they used AI for it.