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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…

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    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.

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2022 Danto/ASA Prize in aesthetics

The APA announcement is here:   the winner is Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, an art historian at Harvard,for her paper, “Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law,” Art Journal 79:4 (2020) 92–113.  The competition this year included 15 papers, and the selection committee also awarded Honorable Mention to Michel-Antoine Xhignesse (Capilano University, Canada) for “What Makes a Kind an Art-Kind?”.

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