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Their wordsThese detectors work through pattern recognition and given that LLM text is extruded as the byproduct of ingesting a massive corpus of human text, it's not a stretch to believe that some of this text under certain prompting conditions may defy the patterns. At the same time, human-created text may mirror that which the detector decides is AI.
Their wordsAt Inside Higher Ed I explored my disgust at Harvard's choice to disband its writing center and lay off its brilliant director, Jane Rosenzweig. These places truly do not care about students, and whatever lip service they pay about the importance of learning to write is B.S.
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