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I’ve been building a crowd-sourced AI detection benchmark. Two responses to the same prompt — one from a real human (pre-2022, provably pre prevalence of AI slop on the internet), one generated by AI. You pick the slop. Three wrong and you’re out.The dataset: 16K human posts from Reddit, Hacker News, and Yelp, each paired with AI generations from 6 models across two providers (Anthropic and OpenAI) at three capability tiers. Same prompt, length-matched, no adversarial coaching — just the model’s natural voice with platform context. Every vote is logged with model, tier, source, response time, and position.Early findings from testing: Reddit posts are easy to spot (humans are too casual for AI to mimic), HN is significantly harder.I'll be releasing the full dataset on HuggingFace and I'll publish a paper if I can get enough data via this crowdsourced study.If you play the HN-only mode, you’re helping calibrate how detectable AI is on here specifically.Would love feedback on the pairs — are any trivially obvious? Are some genuinely hard?
HN · launched Mar 12, 2026 · 19 upvotes (top 27%) · 1 view
Niche: ai content detection software · 97 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- B2C
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A Next.js trivia-style guessing game comparing two text snippets stored in a database is a textbook vibe-coding project.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: AI detection game helps train models to be less detectable, Success rates lower than expected (90%), missing AI-generated content elsewhere, UX quality issues with the interface, Difficulty distinguishing between human and AI at higher capability levels, Dataset quality concerns - obvious tells need filtering for serious research
Feature requests: Toggle option to choose human-written or AI-generated detection mode, Clearer visual feedback - green/red card for correct/wrong answers, Publish complete dataset with all questions, answers, user metadata, and timing
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Launched 133 days after the earliest competitor.
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