An LLM API Returned 4.17 Million Characters: Using MD5 Fingerprints to Prove It Was Duplication, Not Generation
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A draft that should have been 3,000 characters came back at 4,169,336 — and splitting it by section and fingerprinting with MD5 proved that only 28 sections were ever generated and the other 2,037 were byte-identical copies. In a WordPress AI article generation plugin I built, a draft that should h…
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- 2026-09-14 13:26 · DEV Community — AI
An LLM API Returned 4.17 Million Characters: Using MD5 Fingerprints to Prove It Was Duplication, Not Generation