Comment by dekhn

It's not a hill I want to die on either, ultimately the moderators run the site and make the rules and we comply with them at their pleasure.

dang believes that the "transcription and formatting" adds a signature. I entered into Gemini Pro (at the highest level of reasoning) and it calls it human written text and provides a far more detailed description of why: "If an LLM was used here, it was likely just used as a grammar checker or "polisher" rather than a generator. If we had to flag anything, it would be this section:... .his reads like a standard, high-quality comment from a technical forum like Hacker News or Reddit's r/analog. If the user utilized an LLM, they likely wrote the entire comment themselves and merely passed it through a tool like Grammarly or ChatGPT with a prompt like "Fix my typos" without letting it change their voice or vocabulary."

I tried ChatGPT and Claude (all the most recent models I have access to) and they all agree: human text, slightly modified to be more readable.

Looking at Pangram's output, it only mentioned the last sentence as AI generated:

"Would you recommend it, and roughly what did you pay? Have you tried camera scanning? I’ve been considering automating film advance and capture on my setup, but consistent color conversion is the part I’m least confident about."

That's absolutely a sentence a human expert might write. Even if it wasn't, the content contributes to the discussion. Seriously, why would grammar checkers for voice dictation even be remotely an issue?