A few days ago I submitted something to HN and it was almost immediately flagged. I was later made aware that it probably was because someone had thought it had been written by an LLM.
It was not, however, and I found the experience both disturbing and thought-provoking. I actually care about what I write. Being taken for a machine was not something I could have predicted would happen in my lifetime.
I don't think we can really win this fight with technology, but we can take a stand and have fun in the process. So I set up a team of agents to make https://possiblymadebyahuman.com in a (probably futile) attempt to let people claim their humanity.
I'm trying to envision the attacks and countermeasures for this approach. I suppose what I would do to fake this is write a program that takes text and the desired output histogram of edit timings and randomly introduces jitter into the typing. Then, I'd imagine you'd develop more sophisticated statistical tests, and so on. My intuition is that eventually there would be no statistical test that reliably discriminates real human typing.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 16.3 ms ] threadIt was not, however, and I found the experience both disturbing and thought-provoking. I actually care about what I write. Being taken for a machine was not something I could have predicted would happen in my lifetime.
I don't think we can really win this fight with technology, but we can take a stand and have fun in the process. So I set up a team of agents to make https://possiblymadebyahuman.com in a (probably futile) attempt to let people claim their humanity.
Signed https://possiblymadebyahuman.com/3Van5HTAsV
I'm trying to envision the attacks and countermeasures for this approach. I suppose what I would do to fake this is write a program that takes text and the desired output histogram of edit timings and randomly introduces jitter into the typing. Then, I'd imagine you'd develop more sophisticated statistical tests, and so on. My intuition is that eventually there would be no statistical test that reliably discriminates real human typing.