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by johnfn 1321 days ago
If generator output is truly indistinguishable from human output, then who cares? We've won.

It reminds me of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/

> But I feel like the technology to write fake text is inevitably going to outpace the ability to detect it.

Counterintuitively, this isn't always true! For example, spam detectors have outpaced spam generation now for decades.