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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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  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.

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  7. Mark's avatar

Blast from the past: it was almost a decade ago that the usual suspects went after Rebecca Tuvel for a peer-reviewed article

What a disgrace, which, thankfully, many philosophers condemned at the time. Professor Tuvel, fortunately, did get tenure, despite this unhinged attack. Alas, it’s not clear any of the miscreants (or their apologists) suffered any repercussions for their bad behavior.

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