There are supposedly some ways to tell statistically whether or not it's being created by some of these AIs. I personally don't know if those methods, how accurate they are, especially considering that you need to be very accurate to not get false positives all the time. This is sort of a classic statistical problem. You need to be extremely accurate to not generate false positives. And so, for example, when I was playing around with chat GPT, which is sort of has been conditioned to be as we less crazy as possible. It loves apologies. Yeah, it loves apologies.
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