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Any system designed to help disadvantaged people that has hit the mark.

The point being made is that the idea of detecting AI text is absurd. It won't work it can't work. The point about it having an increased negative impact on those who are already at a disadvantage is important.

Smart people don't need additional barriers to becoming benefits to society and promoting any tool that creates those barriers and does literally nothing else is terrible. And no, not all systems meet this criteria.



> Any system designed to help disadvantaged people that has hit the mark.

Are there any such systems? Don't all of them have the same problem of the very people who most need the system being the least capable of using it?


I'm losing the train of thought here. Smart people are the ones least likely to be able to defend themselves?

I think it's enough to say that it harms some people (ESL) more than others and leave it at that.




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