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Although this looks like a clever approach, a kind of stochastic key, I do not see how this guarantees to distinguish text written by big babble machines versus humans. Humans also have a certain pattern of writing, a given distribution of how some words are more likely to appear than others. How can one tell them really apart?
As an indicator, yeah, might be usable. But I wouldn't read too much into it before seeing results of a study that runs actual tests.
I thought the article explained that pretty reasonably on a scale of probability and weight. The longer the text, the more reliable the scoring.