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We track telemetry such as typing speed, pauses, tab changes, and window focus events.

People figure out ways around this for like...Runescape bots and other low-stake situations. I don't think it would hold up to anything other than casual users. Seems like an agent could whip something up in Auto-HotKey or something.

I get this is the extreme end, but if this gets popular enough, can't you write like a custom 'keyboard' driver that just takes AI input and 'types' it? Random delay between keystrokes, whatever....

It also can't be used to verify existing work, right? I can't see if a student's essay is LLM-written. Is there any real-world use you see? Or is this just a fun toy?

I get this is the extreme end, but if this gets popular enough, can't you write like a custom 'keyboard' driver that just takes AI input and 'types' it? Random delay between keystrokes, whatever....

We can easily go one more step than drivers; making a cheap microcontroller enumerate as a USB keyboard is easy.

Ai powered rubber duckies go crazyyyyyyy

School/students were my target user when I created this. But also mostly just a fun toy.

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