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by Gigachad 1145 days ago
Isn't this exactly the same problem as detecting if text was AI generated which has largely agreed to be impossible?
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Kind of, but not exactly.

In the end it's content that matters, not the form that it's send to - I don't care if it's my grandma sending me offers for viagra pills, or a spammer, and I don't care about the language either - I just don't want to get such offers.

On the other hand, if there is an e-mail that may be interesting to me, I don't care if it was sent by a human, or by a machine - I want to see it in my inbox.

In other words - it's not about distinguishing human/machine written text. It's about distinguishing content that is worthwhile for me from the one that isn't.