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

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

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

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

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Recovered patients who allegedly got reinfected?

Brian Leiter

They weren't, they were false positives, as suspected originally. 

(Thanks to Eric Winsberg for the pointer.)

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  1. David Ozonoff

    I suspect there is more to the Committee's report than mentioned in this article. Their false positive explanation is quite plausible and many of us suspected it was a strong possibility, but this news report doesn't make a strong case for it. So as with much else, we will have to await better and more thoroughly reported data and probably better studies of this important question.

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