A talk from the hacker conference 39C3 on how AI generated content was identified via a simple ISBN checksum calculator (in English).
TL;DW:
He wrote checksum verifier for ISBN and discovered AI generated content on Wikipedia with hallucinated sources. He used Claude to write the checksum verifier and the irony is not lost on him. He tracked down those who submitted the fake articles and determined many are doing so out of a misplaced desire to help, without an understanding of the limitations and pitfalls of using LLM gen content without verification.
What’s the irony?
He used AI to write the anti-AI tool
To be fair, humans are excellent at building anti-human tools
Now if there’s one thing you can be sure of, it’s that nothing is more powerful than a young boy’s wish. Except an Apache helicopter. An Apache helicopter has machine guns AND missiles. It is an unbelievably impressive complement of weaponry, an absolute death machine.
