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Building an AI Text Detector from Scratch

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Inspired by Substack's AI detector feature, this tutorial walks through building a custom AI text detector using a fine-tuned DistilBERT classifier that scores text from 0 to 100 based on how likely it was AI-generated. The project also explores using the detector as a verifier to help small language models produce more human-sounding text.

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