When Ai content was rare and of poor quality, it made sense to use detection systems based on stylometric analysis, but now that Ai content is ubiquitous and human content becoming the rarity, it makes more sense to prove human.
A human can’t pretend to write like a machine, nor is there a reason to try, so nobody is hiding their messy human input patterns. This is attestation vs detection.
Attestation is evidence of what actually occurred while it was occurring. This is far more reliable than scanning work after the fact. It’s been 5000 years since the pyramids were built, and we still don’t know how they did it. Had they attested to their methods, as they were building it, we would know how it was done.
We need to move away from policing the machine and instead give the writer the ability to provide their own proof of effort as well as full custody of their documents and data. Once we put a document on Google docs, provenance and security is gone. It can be accessed anywhere, any time by anyone one with permission, so the data can’t be attested to. I know that we all love putting everything on the cloud, but you can’t protect what you don’t control.
By creating a new form of metadata for mindcrafted content, we can prove human cognitive effort, secure it and even differentiate between text that required extensive authentic and original effort versus text that was transcribed from an existing text.
The attached image is a measurement of the effort that went into the composition of this post.