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ChatGPT Confuses AI Text Detecting Tools

ChatGPT Confuses AI Text Detecting Tools

Armin Alimardani Lecturer, University of Wollongong Emma A. Jane Associate Professor UNSW Sydney As the “chatbot wars” rage in Silicon Valley, the growing proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools specifically designed to generate human-like text has left many baffled. Educators in particular are scrambling to adjust to the availability

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NZ Cities Urgently Need to Become ‘Spongier’

Alex Lo Senior Lecturer in Climate Change Victoria University of Wellington Faith Chan Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences University of Nottingham Two extreme and deadly weather events within the first two months of 2023 have brought the consequences of climate change into sharp focus. Auckland’s January 27 flood is

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NZ Must Change How It Grows Trees

NZ Must Change How It Grows Trees

Mark Bloomberg Adjunct Senior Fellow Te Kura Ngahere – New Zealand School of Forestry University of Canterbury The severe impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle on the North Island, and the five severe weather events experienced by the Thames–Coromandel region in just the first two months of 2023, are merely the latest

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Woke and ‘Bread and Butter’ Politics

John A.Z. Moore democracyproject.nz John A.Z. Moore is a writer for the Democracy Project and a precarious worker in the provinces. Jacinda Ardern’s government promised transformation in the economic and social spheres. But after failing to deliver on key material/economic concerns, such as with the

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Therapeutic Products Bill an Extremely Important Issue

Therapeutic Products Bill an Extremely Important Issue

Mark Freeman A protest against the Therapeutic Products Bill in Wellington at the weekend drew a very positive response from passing motorists. Nearly 50 people from several freedom groups in the city came together on Saturday to raise public awareness of the legislation. The event was one of a number

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When Govts Enforce Race Relations

George Ford Smith mises.org George Ford Smith is a former mainframe and PC programmer and technology instructor, the author of eight books including a novel about a renegade Fed chairman (Flight of the Barbarous Relic) and a nonfiction book on how money became an instrument of theft (The Jolly

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Critical Thinking, Discussion Should Never Be Suppressed

Critical Thinking, Discussion Should Never Be Suppressed

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson brownstone.org Thorsteinn Siglaugsson is an Icelandic consultant, entrepreneur and writer and contributes regularly to The Daily Sceptic as well as various Icelandic publications. He holds a BA degree in philosophy and an MBA from INSEAD. Thorsteinn is a certified expert in the Theory of Constraints and author

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Is America Becoming Like North Korea?

Is America Becoming Like North Korea?

Jeff Charles libertynation.com Socio-political correspondent at LibertyNation.com. A self-confessed news and political junkie, Jeff’s writing has been featured in NewsweekOpinion, and Red State. He hosts A Fresh Perspective podcast and has appeared as a guest on Fox News, Fox Soul and The Hill’s Rising.

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Drag Queens: Adult Entertainment Aimed at Children

Drag Queens: Adult Entertainment Aimed at Children

familyfirst.org.nz Our children are being bombarded by ‘sexuality and gender’ messaging 24/7. Online, in the classroom1, everywhere. It’s a battle to indoctrinate the minds of our children. And there’s now a new show in town targeting young kids in this hypersexualised culture war – Drag Queens.

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Marburg: Products, Profits and Power

Marburg: Products, Profits and Power

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com WHO Africa announced the first ever Marburg virus outbreak in Equatorial Guinea on 13 February 2023, reporting that “Preliminary tests carried out following the deaths of at least nine people in the country’s eastern Kie Ntem Province turned out positive

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Education: Where Are the Kids?

Alwyn Poole www.innovativeeducation.co.nz www.alwynpoole.substack.com/ The Minister of Education (Hipkins) who drove attendance in NZ off the cliff was planning to make a big ANNOUNCEMENT this week on how to cure the disease he has significant responsibility for causing. The announcement has been delayed. From

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Let’s Stop Quakes with Solar Panels, Then?

Let’s Stop Quakes with Solar Panels, Then?

Joanne Nova cfact.org A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was

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They Believe They Can Do No Wrong

Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior manager

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ChatGPT Could Change Higher Education for the Better

Peter Jacobsen mercatornet.com Peter Jacobsen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ottawa University and the Gwartney Professor of Economic Education and Research at the Gwartney Institute. He received his PhD in economics from George Mason University, and obtained his BS from Southeast Missouri State University. His research interest

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Western Progressives Loved Stalinism and Maoism

Western Progressives Loved Stalinism and Maoism

Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. (Follow him on Substack.) His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, the Washington Times, MSN.com, the Washington

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What is a UFO?

What is a UFO?

Wendy Whitman Cobb Professor of Strategy and Security Studies Air University On the heels of the Feb. 4, 2023, shooting down of a Chinese balloon suspected of spying on the US, American fighter jets have shot down three additional objects in or near US airspace. When the media asked Glen

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