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>But there don’t seem to be any contributors, or at least not human ones. I ran every article on the site through Pangram (the AI detector that credibly claims

>But there don’t seem to be any contributors, or at least not human ones. I ran every article on the site through Pangram (the AI detector that credibly claims a near-zero false-positive rate). Of the 94 articles, 69% came back flagged as fully AI-generated, with another 28% flagged as partially AI-generated. Only three articles were classified as human-authored. How credible is this credible claim?

antonvs 2mo ago
Regardless of that claim, here’s a good test for how real this site is - it’s called “The Wire by Acutus”, but try to find a site for “Acutus”. Is it Acutus Medical, a “cardiac arrhythmia management company”, or Acutus Partners, “Expert healthcare consulting for transformative growth strategies that empower healthcare organizations to thrive and succeed”? Neither seem obviously correct, and there are no other good candidates, not to mention that the lack of a link from “The Wire” to its supposed parent is suspicious.
- protocolture 2mo ago
  >but try to find a site for “Acutus”. Interesting test to the modern marketing theory that something needs a website to be real and tangible these days. Its certainly worth following up on. Its cool and good to know who is paying someone. But like, running a news site seems like something everyone is welcome to try and fail at? My only concern is the idea that AI text has magical properties that can be tested and verified with 99% accuracy.
NitpickLawyer 2mo ago
If anything this shows how pangram is unreliable. Chances are, if someone is running an article generation thing, it'll be 100% generated. Writing 3 / 100 articles "by hand" doesn't make any sense.
- oersted 2mo ago
  They do seem to have an internal review process, some articles might have been heavily edited, particularly early in the development process. But indeed, if Pangram is marketing itself as "near-zero false-positives" now, that entails that the are aggressively biasing it towards being conservative, likely leading to lots of false-negatives and low match scores on AI content.
tripleee 2mo ago
I'm now suspicious this author (had AI) built the blog they're referencing just so they could make claims against OpenAI.

antonvs 2mo ago

Regardless of that claim, here’s a good test for how real this site is - it’s called “The Wire by Acutus”, but try to find a site for “Acutus”. Is it Acutus Medical, a “cardiac arrhythmia management company”, or Acutus Partners, “Expert healthcare consulting for transformative growth strategies that empower healthcare organizations to thrive and succeed”? Neither seem obviously correct, and there are no other good candidates, not to mention that the lack of a link from “The Wire” to its supposed parent is suspicious.

protocolture 2mo ago
>but try to find a site for “Acutus”. Interesting test to the modern marketing theory that something needs a website to be real and tangible these days. Its certainly worth following up on. Its cool and good to know who is paying someone. But like, running a news site seems like something everyone is welcome to try and fail at? My only concern is the idea that AI text has magical properties that can be tested and verified with 99% accuracy.

NitpickLawyer 2mo ago

If anything this shows how pangram is unreliable. Chances are, if someone is running an article generation thing, it'll be 100% generated. Writing 3 / 100 articles "by hand" doesn't make any sense.

oersted 2mo ago
They do seem to have an internal review process, some articles might have been heavily edited, particularly early in the development process. But indeed, if Pangram is marketing itself as "near-zero false-positives" now, that entails that the are aggressively biasing it towards being conservative, likely leading to lots of false-negatives and low match scores on AI content.

tripleee 2mo ago

I'm now suspicious this author (had AI) built the blog they're referencing just so they could make claims against OpenAI.