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All these "is this AI" checkers should be banned, as they never can reach 100% accuracy.

This is a truely bizarre claim. Imagine if one said:

"Weather forecasts should be banned because they can never reach 100% accuracy"

They are completely different things with different consequences. Someone can point to the sky and prove that the sun is there.

You're responding to a comment about weather forecasts, not current weather. Pointing to the sun is not a forecast.

Imagine writing an article in 5 days. Working hard. Posting it online and then everyone says it is ai and laughs and dismisses it because a tool says it is AI.

Like in this comic about art: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/064.html

Imagine wasting several thousand people's time

They are overrepresented in HN discussions for sure as there is an over-reliance on them that just aims to shut down discussions.

Which is ironic since they are a tool folks are trusting blindly supposedly used to argue against tool use with blind trust.

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