Opinion
“Was This Written by AI?” Is the Wrong Question
Readers care whether something is accurate, useful and honest. Obsessing over the tool that helped produce it distracts from the standards that actually matter.

Readers care whether something is accurate, useful and honest. Obsessing over the tool that helped produce it distracts from the standards that actually matter.

AI detectors promise to tell human writing from machine writing. In practice their verdicts are unreliable, and false accusations have real consequences.