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Per the article, the didn't just use the static detector:

They also extracted the workers’ keystrokes in a bid to work out whether they’d copied and pasted their answers, an indicator that they’d generated their responses elsewhere.

So while I don't yet know if the article is bunk -- I do know that your hot take is bunk.




Or they typed up their responses in a different text editor and copy and pasted from that?


They never used a static detector.


"Static" in this case refers its being used in isolation (not to any particular kind of detector).

I could have said "they didn't just use the detector all by itself", I suppose.




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