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The Intersect examines the reciprocal influences of technology and the arts.
Prove You're Human (And Dumb It Down to Do It)
Latest issue · No. 85

Prove You're Human (And Dumb It Down to Do It)

The detectors were supposed to catch the bots, not the people who never used one.

I just ran an essay, which I had written 100% manually, through an AI detector. I did this out of curiosity, with the Substack and Pangram integration story breaking in the last few weeks. Though I wrote every word myself, Pangram rated it as 80% AI-written. My first instinct was to see how I could…

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