Prove you wrote it authentically in the age of gen AI

4 hedgehog-ai 6 4/26/2025, 8:45:34 PM proventext.com ↗

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hedgehog-ai · 4d ago
Just a weekend project that is a free service to prove you wrote some text by hand. It falls into the interesting category of a tool that responds to Ai trends but has no AI involved at all.

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begemotz · 3d ago
I think you have a great idea here and I would keep at it. There are very few, if any, good solutions to combating the influx of AI generated work in academia. For many, I think your solution would be welcomed - even if imperfect- it gives administrations something they can point to when asked what they are doing to combat academic integrity associated with AI. I am happy to talk more if it would be useful -- I can think of a few longer term features that would potentially be useful.
hedgehog-ai · 3d ago
@begemotz I really appreciate your input.. please email me at hedgehog-ai@use.startmail.com and I would love to collab.
hedgehog-ai · 4d ago
What is: show hn? Sorry if I posted this is the wrong place.
bryanrasmussen · 4d ago
should maybe be a show hn, anyway I suppose one downside is that people may be working with something and want to import it - how would that work?
begemotz · 3d ago
From the perspective of education at least, I see a use case in requiring students to complete all work within this app; similar to other tools for online test-taking. Of course there are always ways to game the system, but creating enough friction would decrease the ease and frequency of AI generated assignments and papers. I find this very interesting given that my institution officially forbids faculty from using any form of AI detection systems to detect academic fraud.