Pretty graph! iOS Safari, takes just under a second probably to load each time I pan across the graph. Wonder what it’d take to bring it all the way to smooth scrolling—too demanding on resources?
Looking again, figure it has to do all the math again with each pan/drag, so minor latency makes sense.
This mean you are now under gag order as you rise on the bestseller list? :)
Lean Startup is awesome, can’t wait to read your new. Excited to read about the ostensibly-not-evil Costcos of the world and hope the smartest & wealthiest amongst us grok it, that we win more when others win.
Thank you. I really appreciate your kind words, and I consider myself deeply fortunate that I've been able to speak my mind freely on these topics, at least so far.
I found it hard to believe I didn’t have a simple way of staying safe by installing an arbitrary application in a sandbox on macOS. (Restoring using Time Machine doesn’t count! :) )
This is a step in the right direction but requires any given developer’s buy-in first, right?
>Have you tried putting known human writing into pangram? I have. I've gotten 100% AI with multiple samples of my own human writing. It has also given me 50% on things I know were 100% AI written (from my prompts).
>Pangram is basically a made-up number. / I've tried it on large docs I've written well before the AI times, and that are nowhere available on the Internet (so it can't be a corpus issue) - and it is happily classifying me as 60%-80% AI.
Unfortunate there's an incentive to pay to sign up to protect oneself against false accusations.
An earlier claim in this thread stated 100% from the same tool, but another commenter claims 76%, so apparently the tool is even susceptible to that failure mode.
Skepticism against AI text detectors on HN is as old as time, and frequently comes from people with some vested interest in filling up the internet with slop when you look at their business ideas / projects / blogs. I've done systematic testing on human and LLM-generated text and I'm confident that the accuracy is higher than 95% (and that <5% is almost exclusively false negatives).
You shouldn't crucify people based on this alone, but if it reads like AI, quacks like AI, and is detected as AI, it's probably AI.
>Skepticism against AI text detectors on HN is as old as time
Since early 2023 or so, when the detectors were widely reported (off platform) as unreliable?
>and frequently comes from people with some vested interest in filling up the internet with slop
I'm sure sometimes.
At least once, has come from someone who recently philosophized about whether to call out the specifics of AI writing in the first place given the potential for aiding labs in their training missions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326913
>I've done systematic testing
You in the field?
>but if it reads like AI
Actually didn't to me, and I'd like to think my detector's no worse than the average for a commenter here... perhaps as we'd all :)
The OP article is also just so, so obviously AI slop... if you're already thinking "this is probably AI" and pangram thinks the same, that's fairly damning.
True. Will add, device must be supervised to use VPN always-on which is possibly sensible albeit annoying (would have to reinstall iOS and set up as new I believe).
> double-tap-the-bottom-of-the-screen feature that pulls up siri
It’s disabled if not using Apple Intelligence, and can’t tap screen while talking to Siri (it dismisses instead).
Now they’re gating features to the M3 I’m not convinced wouldn’t work on expensive Apple Silicon predecessors… am more convinced the double tap disable is intentional.
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