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At this point, I want human text filtered out. ChatGPT-4 spam is better than SEO spam. User created comments on HN/Reddit are still king

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Funny you mention this because more threads/comments on Reddit are bot created. It's unfortunate that the thing that killed forums is now being filled with bots replying to each other and posting threads.

It's alright for now, but not so sure how long that will remain. I already stumbled upon some of them in a niche subreddit. Easy to detect now, due to the uncanny way it interjects "facts" into it's comments that are supposed to mimic a reddit rant. In the long term when this stops being so easy to detect, I think a lot of people will start questioning why use Reddit (or similar places) at all.

I think also if you hate SEO spam, you might want to brace yourself for chatGPT enabled SEO spam. It's so "good" you might think "Dr. Brandon Amersmith" is a real person and take horrible advice from him.

If you can detect AI-generated text you can detect human-"generated" text, and vice-versa. But currently, there is no way to do either.

Only if your detection system is "perfect". Personally I'd be fine with something with high precision and low recall, even if it means forcing users to rewrite their content to make it less AI-like (like /r9k/ on steroids).

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