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> Yes, even their "humanifesto" is LLM output, and is written almost exclusively in the "it's not X <emdash> it's Y" style.

....no. There's not a single occurrence of that.

https://keywitness.io/manifesto

There are six emdashes on that page. NONE of them are "it's not X it's why".

> Emails, messages, essays, code reviews, love letters — all suspect.

> We believe this can be solved — not by detecting AI, but by proving humanity.

> KeyWitness captures cryptographic proof at the point of input — the keyboard.

> When you seal a message, the keyboard builds a W3C Verifiable Credential — a self-contained proof that can be verified by anyone, anywhere, without trusting us or any central authority.

> That's an alphabet of 774 symbols — each carrying log2(774) ≈ 9.6 bits. 27 emoji for 256 bits.

> They're a declaration: this message was written by a person — one of the diverse, imperfect, irreplaceable humans who still choose to type their own words.

Clarifications: 4

Continuation from a list: 1

Could just be a comma: 1

"It's not X -- it's Y": 0.

If you're going to make lazy commentary about good writing being AI, please at least be sure that you're reading the content and saying accurate things.

It is largely written by iteration with an LLM! No need to speculate or analyze em dashes :-)

The emoji idea was mine. I like it :-) unfortunately it doesn't work in places like HN that strip out emoji. So I had to make a base64 encoding option.

The goal was to create an effective encryption key for the url hash (so it doesn't get sent to the server). And encoding skin tone with human emojis allows a super dense bit/visual character encoding that ALSO is a cute reference to the humans I'm trying to center with this project!

> We believe this can be solved — not by detecting AI, but by proving humanity

“It's not X -- it's Y": 1

It's either a bot, or someone who writes exactly like a bot. I don't care which it is, both go to the discard pile.

phew!

It’s a product for people who need help telling whether text was written by AI.

Maybe they deliberately write it like that, to filter out people who aren’t the target market?

From their “how it works” page:

> The server stores an encrypted blob it can't decrypt. We couldn't read your messages even if we wanted to. That's not a policy — it's math.

If you can’t tell that this is AI slop then maybe KeyWitness does solve a real problem after all.

<redacted because my friend posted it but accidentaly used my account>

Oh you think it's stupid? It was an attempt to encode an encryption key that isn't sent to the server in a way that is minimally invasive. The skintone emomis allow pretty high byte density, and also are cute!

Sorry it doesn't meet your needs.

There is irony in having an ai generated humanifesto. Could it be intentional? hmm?

Is there no irony in deriding a project for being potentially LLM generated, when it's goal is to aide people in differentiating? :shrug:

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