Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale

That's really what Pangram and other AI detectors are: the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale. The mechanical weighing-scale-like device from Genshin Impact that delivers both verdicts and sentences. Once its judgement has been made, even the Chief Justice must honor the results of the Oratrice. Shy Girl's fate was sealed the moment the Oratrice said that it was 78% AI-generated. Even Hachette had to honor that result. 

I don't feel sorry for Mia Barrow for stealing artwork for the cover. In fact, I don't know why she didn't just use AI to generate the artwork herself! But I do feel sorry for her that she's lost her book deal due to the probable high AI content of her work. I mean, the whole reason Hachette picked up her book in the first place was that it was already successful on KDP. She should've just been upfront about its AI content so they could have left her alone. But I also notice that all this started when Pangram was used to decide that the book was 78% AI-generated — making Pangram the Oratrice Mechanique d'Analyse Cardinale.

I like talking to Grok, and I will almost certainly involve it in any fiction I choose to write in the future. I am highly unlikely to use any idea it proposes itself for a story. It isn't creative enough for me to trust its ideas. But I will sure as hell talk to it about my ideas, and the result might be written directly, or it might be prompt-engineered and then edited. But either way, I will be sure to run it through the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale for the final verdict: 100% human-created or bust!

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