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The AI slopcomments are out-of-control on X but also remarkably easy to stop if the company wanted to? I did a little experiment and found that combining as few as five comments and running them through Pangram is good enough to weed out the slop and not punish real humans.
- Who
- Ethan Mollick
- What
- tested combining five comments and running them through Pangram to filter AI-generated comments
- Quote
I did a little experiment and found that combining as few as five comments and running them through Pangram is good enough to weed out the slop and not punish real humans.
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See the full storyEthan Mollick Tests Pangram to Filter AI-Generated Comments on XThe AI slopcomments are out-of-control on X but also remarkably easy to stop if the company wanted to?
I did a little experiment and found that combining as few as five comments and running them through Pangram is good enough to weed out the slop and not punish real humans.
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Ethan Mollick said his experiment found that combining as few as five X comments and checking them with Pangram could filter AI-generated comments without penalizing real people. He said AI-generated comments are out of control on X and suggested the platform could use this approach to address them.
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