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What an excellent talk, many thanks.

One idea comes to my mind (a bit out of topic): as we can store the complete editing history in a document (even including mouse movements) with a fairly small overhead using the ideas of automerge, would this be useful for distinguishing texts that are generated by machines and by humans? Or to detect plagiarism?



I wrote the realtime sync and edit history code in cocalc.com, which is used by instructors to teach courses that use jupyter notebooks with realtime collab. Instructors do regularly suspect and diagnose instances of cheating by students due to us storing the complete edit history. We don't automate this - it's more that they are grading, get suspicious, and use the edit history manually to investigate further.




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