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Secret Cold War Supercomputer Was Built for One Job

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Pangram verdict · v3.3

We believe that this entire text is human-written.

1 %

AI likelihood · overall

Human
100% human-written 0% AI-generated
SEGMENTS · HUMAN 1 of 1
SEGMENTS · AI 0 of 1
WORD COUNT 34
PEAK AI % 1% · §1
Analyzed
Aug 26
backend: pangram/v3.3
Segments scanned
1 windows
avg 34 words each
Distribution
100 / 0%
human / AI fraction
Verdict
Human
Pangram v3.3

Article text · 34 words · 1 segments analyzed

Human AI-generated
§1 Human · 1%

Workers install Harvest (IBM 7950) at the NSA's headquarters. The two consoles configured settings on both Stretch, the system's general-purpose mainframe, and Harvest's streaming coprocessor, designed for high-speed analysis of intercepts, ciphers, and codes.