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@Faraday IDK, I’d just continue to call them imperfect tools. That just puts it at 1 false flag in 11 samples instead of it’s 0 false flags out of 10 samples. Still not garbage.
I think there are real issues in these tools, but I think it is a mistake to write it all off as garbage. Use it as a tool alongside human judgment. Try to use the best tool you can.
I don’t agree with your conclusions. From the same article:
The results varied widely, and in some cases, dramatically.
Pangram and Originality.ai were the most reliable performers. Pangram returned 0 percent across all ten articles. Originality.ai returned 0 percent on eight of ten, with 1 percent on the remaining two. Both tools correctly identified every piece as human written.
Grammarly performed nearly as well, returning 0 percent on eight articles and flagging two at 7 percent and 9 percent respectively—low enough that neither would likely trigger concern in practice.
3 out of 5 did okay? They are tools to use alongside human reasoning. But demonstrably they aren’t garbage.
@howyadoin said in Arx:
Arx also had a secret system that tied most into some aspect of the metaplot or history, giving every character something they could pursue out the gate that was more or less “theirs” and could hook in to wider story arcs.
To clarify, this was a system about Character Secrets, not a system that was secret.
No, the systems were secrets, too. Every time I tried to learn a system to be able to answer questions on help chan or to try to recruit folks, it always ended in more confusion.
@howyadoin said in Arx:
Arx also had a secret system that tied most into some aspect of the metaplot or history, giving every character something they could pursue out the gate that was more or less “theirs” and could hook in to wider story arcs.
To clarify, this was a system about Character Secrets, not a system that was secret.
@Prototart said in Age Verification & Games:
@hellfrog said in Age Verification & Games:
@Prototart the Prince Batman soundtrack was the first cassette tape I ever bought for myself with my own allowance
I don’t remember mine but there’s a really good chance it was one of those Cleopatra Records cover CDs.
Mine was the Ninja Turtles Pseudo-Musical thing.
@hellfrog said in Age Verification & Games:
@Prototart the Prince Batman soundtrack was the first cassette tape I ever bought for myself with my own allowance
I don’t remember mine but there’s a really good chance it was one of those Cleopatra Records cover CDs.
@chorus You’d think, but why moderate one’s behavior when hiding from responsibility for it is an option?
On the tail end of catching, spay/neutering, and medicating ~10 non-feral cats that our aunt left behind loose on a family property. Really, really tragic circumstances, both in the awful conditions that she had been living in — conditions our parents, aunts and uncles were aware of and didn’t intervene in, which has been difficult to come to terms with — and the state of these animals. They’ve all been treated and paired off for fostering, with one special case still scheduled for surgery. Trail cams up to catch sight of any stragglers. Jesus fucking christ, what a dark chapter to come out of. Wish 2026 was offering time to deflate, but I guess that’s not the vibe.
