A recent crop of AI systems claiming to detect AI-generated text perform poorly—and it doesn’t take much to get past them.
Within weeks of ChatGPT’s launch, there were fears that students would be using the chatbot to spin up passable essays in seconds. In response to those fears, startups started making products that promise to spot whether text was written by a human or a machine.
The problem is that it’s relatively simple to trick these tools and avoid detection, according to new research that has not yet been peer reviewed.
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