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Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by threethirtytwo on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:25AM (#46665303)
Your intuition on AI is out of date by about 6 months. Those telltale signs no longer exist.

It wasn't AI generated. But if it was, there is currently no way for anyone to tell the difference.

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by catlifeonmars on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:32AM (#46665598)
I’m confused by this. I still see this kind of phrasing in LLM generated content, even as recent as last week (using Gemini, if that matters). Are you saying that LLMs do not generate text like this, or that it’s now possible to get text that doesn’t contain the telltale “its not X, it’s Y”?
Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by comp_throw7 on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:34AM (#46665337)
> But if it was there is currently no way for anyone to tell the difference.

This is false. There are many human-legible signs, and there do exist fairly reliable AI detection services (like Pangram).

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by threethirtytwo on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:43AM (#46665373)
I've tested some of those services and they weren't very reliable.
Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by CamperBob2 on Sunday January 18, 2026 @10:29AM (#46668571)
If such a thing did exist, it would exist only until people started training models to hide from it.

Negative feedback is the original "all you need."

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by int_19h on Monday January 19, 2026 @05:36PM (#46685465)
There are no reliable AI detection services. At best they can reliably detect output from popular chatbots running with their default prompts. Beyond that reliability deteriorates rapidly so they either err on the side of many false positives, or on the side of many false negatives.

There's already been several scandals where students were accused of AI use on the basis of these services and successfully fought back.

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by velox_neb on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:43AM (#46665372)
> It wasn't AI generated.

You're lying: https://www.pangram.com/history/94678f26-4898-496f-9559-8c4c...

Not that I needed pangram to tell me that, it's obvious slop.

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by threethirtytwo on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:50AM (#46665402)
I wouldn't know how to prove to you otherwise other then to tell you that I have seen these tools show incorrect results for both AI generated text and human written text.
Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by lxgr on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:52AM (#46665707)
Good thing you had a stochastic model backing up (with “low confidence”, no less) your vague intuition of a comment you didn’t like being AI-written.
Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by XenophileJKO on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:54AM (#46665415)
I must be a bot because I love existential dread, that's a great phrase. I feel like they trigger a lot on literate prose.
Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by lxgr on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:54AM (#46665726)
Sad times when the only remaining way to convince LLM luddites of somebody’s humanity is bad writing.