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You can! And I believe many do. But please don't.

Well, most all LLMs appear to function on highschool-level American grammar rules. Given you started sentences with And and But, I safely presume you are not an LLM.

Claude often starts a sentence with 'But'. (There are several examples in my recent conversations, which I checked in case I was misremembering.) 'And' seems to be much less common, but it would use that too if instructed to do so as a humanising trick.

It was really bad about a year ago, but it seems that either HN got their detection algorithms tuned well, or people just stopped spamming LLM output.

Probably a combination of both.

I do sometimes worry it's just that the LLMs got a better disguise

There is, of course, an xkcd for that: https://xkcd.com/810/

this is why any detection armsrace will have an ending. where the classification classes will be indistinguishable.

for some reason too many people assume it will go on forever. humans aren't perfect, humans have variance. AI systems will nestle in the variance. the same applies to any camera (and lossy compression) you put forward.

even in the event that perfection exists, an AI generator and a discriminator can asymptotically approach it. and it assumes there will be no variance, which isn't realistic (even lossless video has sensor variance).

best spam detector..

If you have showdead on you can decide for yourself.

(I haven't exactly been scientific about it, but it feels like it's mostly the former.)

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