(wrote up in https://www.latent.space/i/139368545/the-concept-of-low-back... - but ironically repeating something somebody else said online is kinda what i'm willingly participating in, and it's unclear why human-origin tokens should be that much higher signal than ai-origin ones)
https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo...
johng•1h ago
cryzinger•23m ago
madars•11m ago
None of these documents were actually published on the web by then, incl., a Watergate PDF bearing date of Nov 21, 1974 - almost 20 years before PDF format got released. Of course, WWW itself started in 1991.
Google Search's date filter is useful for finding documents about historical topics, but unreliable for proving when information actually became publicly available online.
qwertygnu•21m ago
Plus other sites that link to the content could also give away it's date of creation, which is out of the control of the AI content.
CGamesPlay•8m ago