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Can You Detect AI-Generated Text? Why Detectors Fall Short
AI detectors promise to tell human writing from machine writing. In practice their verdicts are unreliable, and false accusations have real consequences.

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

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