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Re:Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Le... by mr_mitm on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:18PM (#48939673)
How do you estimate your false negative rate?
Re:Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Le... by Wowfunhappy on Thursday July 16, 2026 @05:31PM (#48940526)
No idea, I'm not convinced it matters that much? Like, if people are using AI and I legitimately can't tell at all (and I'm not their teacher or something)... okay, fair.

Edit: But I'm also super conflicted about this, because I really want to read what humans think, not what an AI thinks, regardless of the writing quality.

Re:Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Le... by mr_mitm on Friday July 17, 2026 @08:02AM (#48946295)
My point is that you cannot know that AI generated text is obviously AI generated. It's like the old "hair pieces look awful, I can tell immediately!" - no, you can only tell when they're awful. Maybe you're not as good as you think at detecting AI.
Re:Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Le... by Wowfunhappy on Friday July 17, 2026 @03:24PM (#48951276)
Well, but I think my false positive rate is very low, it’s just the false negative rate that could potentially be quite high. This bothers me much less than the reverse.