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January 29, 2026 · Toronto

Human-ish: LinkedIn AI Detector

This talk introduces Human-ish, a tool to detect AI-written LinkedIn posts, exploring the feedback loop between AI content generation and human engagement.

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  • GPTZero
    GPTZero is the leading AI detection software: It identifies text generated by large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude with high-accuracy sentence-by-sentence analysis.
    GPTZero is a premier AI content detector, launched in January 2023 by Princeton student Edward Tian, specifically to combat AI-generated academic plagiarism and maintain authentic human writing. The platform uses a proprietary, multi-step algorithm to detect content from major LLMs (e.g., GPT-4, Llama) and claims 99% accuracy. It has scaled rapidly: serving over 10 million users and integrating with 3500+ colleges and 100+ organizations across education, publishing, and hiring sectors. The tool provides both an overall AI score and granular sentence-level detection, moving beyond simple binary classification.
  • GPT5
    GPT-5 is OpenAI's unified, state-of-the-art multimodal system, featuring a real-time router for automatic complex reasoning and a 400K token context window.
    This is the GPT-5 system: OpenAI launched it on August 7, 2025, as the successor to GPT-4o. It represents a major architectural shift, unifying advanced reasoning (from the O-series) and multimodal capabilities into a single, adaptive system. A real-time router intelligently selects between a high-throughput 'Fast Mode' and a deeper 'Thinking Mode' based on query complexity: manual model-switching is eliminated. Developers gain a 400K token context window via the API, enabling processing of entire codebases or large documents. The model delivers state-of-the-art performance across mathematics, coding, and finance, with a confirmed 94.6% accuracy on advanced math benchmarks and significantly reduced hallucinations.
  • Google Chrome
    The dominant, cross-platform web browser from Google: built on the Blink engine for speed, security, and a 71.22% global market share.
    Google Chrome is the world's most-used web browser, holding a 71.22% worldwide market share across all platforms as of December 2025. Launched in 2008, this cross-platform browser (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS) is engineered for speed and stability: its multi-process architecture, built on the Blink rendering engine, isolates tabs to prevent crashes. Security is paramount, featuring integrated Safe Browsing technology to warn against malicious sites. Users benefit from a clean, minimalist interface and extensive customization via the Chrome Web Store, which offers over 137,000 extensions.
  • Chrome extension
    Chrome extensions are small, powerful software modules: they customize the browser experience, inject new features, and interact with web content using standard web technologies and dedicated Chrome APIs.
    A Chrome extension is a focused application built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that directly enhances the Google Chrome browser's functionality. It operates via a declarative `manifest.json` file (Manifest V3 is current) which defines its permissions and resources. Extensions execute code in dedicated background service workers, modify web pages via content scripts, or provide user interfaces through toolbar actions and side panels. For example, an extension can block ads using the `declarativeNetRequest` API, manage tabs, or integrate third-party productivity tools directly into the browser interface.
  • LinkedIn
    LinkedIn is the world's premier professional network: It connects over 1 billion members across 200+ countries, driving career development and recruitment for global businesses.
    This platform, launched in 2003 and owned by Microsoft (since 2016), is the definitive hub for professional identity and opportunity. Users build digital CVs, network with peers, and follow 67 million company pages: It is a critical talent pipeline where, according to official statistics, six people are hired every minute. LinkedIn’s core function is facilitating job search (65 million weekly searches) and B2B connections, making it the essential digital resource for the global workforce.

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