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That is not how any of this works. This is not even close to why its hard to make a machine like that (and very much possible to do so, in theory).

The model does not produce statistically indistinguishable from human outputs, but the outputs that satisfy its training rewards system most strongly. Those are very different things. And the rest of the argument is less logically.

And if we assume that was possible, and that such a detector could be used to train better models, which in turn would lead to better detectors, that would not break any laws of information theory of thermodynamics either! That would still require immersive amounts of compute!

And compute, famously, cost energy! Which is why this doesn't break thermodynamics. It also doesn't break information theory, because we already know what human text looks like, and are just extracting out the patterns that make it look like so via computation.

Also, the thing is that, a text or any other thing, that has all the average values of a large diverse population, is very strange! A text that is statistically closest to the overall dataset average of all human text, is not very human look at all!