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Seems like the site might have crashed, here's an archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230515030802/https://itwasntai....

But tl;dr many students have been accused of using AI by teachers who think that AI detection software works, when it really doesn't. So the goal of this site is to communicate to teachers that AI detection software isn't reliable.

I originally discovered this in a reddit comment which you can see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/13hi5y6/comment/jk...


I've been working on a manual version of this for many months now [0]. I read books of historical figures, then create fictional but accurate conversations with them based on the books. And I always include full citations so people know it's accurate.

I think releasing a purely AI version of this is not feasible at the moment, because of the obvious issue of hallucinations. It's not an educational product if it's giving people false information. In fact, it's actively harmful. And it's sad that people are trying to cash in on the AI hype without any regard for the accuracy of their content.

[0] https://dkbshow.substack.com/


Yeah I think the bigger issue here is not highlighting the matched text, which makes it look like it's doing something totally random.

There is some typo tolerance, so it's hard to tell exactly what is matching on those pages.

I'm working on adding query operators so you can specify things like exact matching, and in general working on improving the results.

This type of feedback is very helpful, so thank you!


My understanding is that the early days of blogging were mostly people sharing personal things, and now that has moved to social media.

A lot of the online writing happening now is essays on some topic, or people trying to share notes on things they learn. And I think this type of writing is more conducive to a project like this.


The simple and unfortunate explanation is that the index is just not that big right now (only 900 blogs).

Working on increasing it significantly, but will take some time. Try it again in a month and you may find it more useful. Right now it's mostly filled with tech, business, and politics.


Thanks. I figured that, but perhaps a message saying that no results were found would be more useful than showing random blog posts. Or maybe show that message, along with "... here are some interesting posts from the past month..."


query operators coming soon


This is really cool, it would be awesome to make a graph of the blogosphere like this.

I'd love to chat about this more, will send you an email.


Oops, yeah I meant to re-add that. Will get a recent posts page up soon.


Thanks for the tip, just added an OpenSearch xml.


Thank you!

> changing a search phrase or word and doing a new search, I notice the results do change, but there's no way to know if it really happened. Changing a Google search, the whole page flashes empty, that way I see/sense there's something new. In your case, a change is subtle, very subtle, too subtle. In one instance I had to look carefully to see the change in results.

That is a good point. I did try to remove any loading indicators because I thought it would be smoother, but maybe it's a bit too smooth for people to realize their search went through. Will think more on how to fix this.


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