Watch out, cheaters—AI detectors are here to catch you and your chatbot red-handed.

Or, at least, that’s what AI developers use as a selling point and want us to believe. When ChatGPT entered the cultural zeitgeist in 2022, teachers and professors balked at the surge in AI-generated research papers and homework. To curb the use of AI in the classroom, educators have been using AI detectors that claim to distinguish AI-written text from human-written text.

But how accurate are these tools? According to Christopher Penn, Chief Data Scientist at Boston-based marketing analytics firm Trust Insights, “AI detectors are a joke.” One AI detector he tested claimed that 97.75% of the preamble to the U.S. Declaration of Independence was AI-generated.

“What led me to the testing of AI detectors was seeing colleagues battling back and forth, arguing about whether a piece of content was AI-generated,” Penn told Decrypt. “I saw this on LinkedIn; some people were lobbing accusations against each other that so-and-so was being a lazy marketer, taking the easy way out, and just using AI.”

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Author: Jason Nelson