This is not only not possible to build in any reliable and maintainable way, but "[w]e are the most accurate AI text detector that exists" is an outlandish claim.
I've benchmarked against Originality.ai, gptzero.me, zerogpt, writer.com and copyleaks.com, which are the top 5 AI detectors to my understanding.
None of them are very good, so I don't think this claim is very outlandish.
Also, are you sure it's not reliable or maintainable? Obviously you can't publish one model and expect it to work forever but we have pipelines to continuously augment our training set and we can add new LLMs as they come out.
It is truly strange to see so many comments on Hacker News -- a message board owned by YCombinator, a startup accelerator whose actual mission is to launch wildly profitable companies -- talking conspiratorially about the wealthy being "parasites", lambasting "capitalism", pointing to increased profits as evidence of unscrupulous behavior.
Sometimes it feels like the site is being astroturfed with progressive / class warfare type messages.
Othertimes I feel it's just the same old "eternal september" problem but with techies, a bunch of young idealistic kids fresh out of college who tend to think in black and white terms of "us" vs "them". I remember being this way as a teenager, not quite sure when I grew out of it.
I remember listening to punk rock and advocating for "anarchy" etc (I'm sure I got the idea listening to too much Sex Pistols)... SMH... We all took ourselves and our political views sooooo seriously at that age.... Thank god no one was listening to me back then. The difference between then and now is that my conversations were in person and shared amongst a few high school kids, now they're broadcast to the world, commented on, and amplified.
The more I think about it, I'm hoping its just kids being kids.
The class struggle is the favorite argument for every form of ill in the UK. It's a culture war if you like. Once someone gets to the point of blaming something on the evil rich or the feckless layabouts then you cannot get any further in working out what's actually going wrong.
It is a horrendously boring argument which immigrants like me "cannot understand" because somehow or other we don't feel like we belong on either "side".
Europeans are more aware of class struggle than people from the United States. They didn't have a McCarthyism red scare. Since this news is about an European country, it is no so strange that people complain about the system that brought this into being.
Because the startups are (hopefully) adding value whereas the people we're talking about are robbing the UK blind whilst offering little of value in return. One is competence, the other is extortion.
The comments here are particularly disappointing. Relitigating old Microsoft debates (all the way down to adolescent insults — instead of Micro$oft we have (c)opywrong), blaming Microsoft for global inequality (!), multiple references to AI being “bullshit” because a model didn’t perform up to snuff on a particular task on a particular try.
HN used to (this is a new account, but I am not new to HN) embrace technology, optimism, and the intersection of the two. Now it’s a race to see who can demonstrate their bona fides by sneering enough or affecting enough disillusionment. It’s really disappointing! And yes, I realize I’m not being the change I want to see, but it is so disheartening to see so many grumpy people racing to tear others down.
It's important to note that the author is a well-known effective altruist who firmly believes that AI catastrophe _is_ coming and tweets about this quite a bit. Quite honestly, I find it odd (or perhaps telling) that Vox just provides a platform for EA to report on EA-related topics with only minor disclaimers that the author is, in fact, a well-known EA.
Sorry -- why do we need to provide disclaimers as to authors' philosophical leanings? Or is it just this particular philosophy that you think needs to be noted?
