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A chart titles "Anomalous Post IDs and Times. PhysicsForums.com, 30,000 Posts". X axis is year, Y axis is Post ID. A read line labelled "Human" increases gradually, while at the top there is blue noise ("LLM") spread between 2003 and 2023 almost uniformly.

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A chart titles "Anomalous Post IDs and Times. PhysicsForums.com, 30,000 Posts". X axis is year, Y axis is Post ID. A read line labelled "Human" increases gradually, while at the top there is blue noise ("LLM") spread between 2003 and 2023 almost uniformly.
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Ilya Zverev (zverik@en.osm.town)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 00:29:08 JST Ilya Zverev

TIL big specialized forums have started backdating millions of LLM-generated posts. Now you cannot be sure a reply from 2009 on some forum for physics or maps or flower or drill enthusiasts haven't been machine-generated and totally wrong.
https://hallofdreams.org/posts/physicsforums/

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