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by nojs 677 days ago
Nice. I found you can beat this by picking the word least likely to be selected by a language model, because it seems like the alternative choices are generated by an LLM. “Pick the outlier” is the best strategy.

This is presumably also a simply strategy for detecting AI content in general - see how many “high temperature” choices it makes.

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This was always my strategy for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Pick the answer that would seem the most unlikely to be listed if any of the other three answers were the correct one.
What scores are you getting using this technique?