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  1. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

  2. Mark's avatar

    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

  3. Deirdre Anne's avatar
  4. Keith Douglas's avatar

    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  5. sahpa's avatar

    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

  6. Deirdre Anne's avatar
  7. Mark's avatar

I’m done at this point posting excerpts from Kipnis’s book or reviews of the book…

…and while I have commented at various places about inaccuracies or dubious innuendo in Kipnis's account that I had noticed, I do plan to have a bit more to say about aspects of her account that appear to be inconsistent with other evidence.  That will come over the next week or two, so that we can try to have a more balanced public record of what has transpired in this case that is of significant interest to members of the academic community.

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