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Sep 2026
Who Wrote This? Turing, Total Variation, and the Mathematics of AI-Text Detection
What can a finished text reveal about the process that produced it? Drawing on Turing's imitation game and statistical decision theory, this article examines the limits of AI-text detection as an inference from a completed object to an unobserved history. For two known source distributions with equal prior probabilitie...
S. Schnell
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