News Summary: Kobo CEO Reveals 45% of Self-Published Submissions Rejected for Suspected AI Content

I missed this story when it first came out a fortnight ago (I think because the title of the article by Rakuten Kobo's Russ Tamblyn is decidedly oblique, so I just moved on). Fortunately the substantive content has generated several more helpfully titled spinout columns since then, so I'm circling back to the original. A single sentence is at the heart of this piece, and it contains a figure that provides additional context for much of the recent debate over AI-generated content. Tamblyn is speaking in his capacity as president and CEO at Rakuten Kobo.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/suspected-ai-content/

#AIdetection #AIgeneratedbooks #BarnesandNoble #indiepublishing #jamesdaunt

I have tested several AI image detection tools and wrote a little blog about it.

https://wuethri.ch/is-this-image-ai-generated/

#ai #aidetection

Superhuman just bought GPTZero, the startup that built a name for itself by spotting AI-generated text. The deal terms are secret, but GPTZero’s founder says the company had 19 million users and was pulling in $30 million a year. Not bad for a tool that started as a Princeton...

#AI #AIdetection #GPTZero #Grammarly #Superhuman

https://code-n-clarity.blogspot.com/2026/06/superhuman-buys-gptzero-to-sharpen-its.html

New York Times: Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era. This link goes to a gift article. “Humanizers rewrite A.I.-produced text to make it sound less robotic, formulaic and trite. Autotypers slowly drip words and sentences into documents, making it appear as if papers were typed at a human pace when in fact, they were produced by A.I. They even fabricate typos, […]

Deezer just turned on a free AI-music detector. Why: nearly half of new uploads are AI, around 75,000 tracks a day. Most plays get flagged as fraud.

Google's Veo 3 was the first frontier video model to ship synced sound. ElevenLabs is now valued at $11B and pledged $1B in free voice-restoration tech for people who have lost their voice.

The machines are turning up everywhere. So is the detection.

https://youtu.be/BrL3GvN7FWU

#GenerativeAI #AIDetection #SyntheticMedia

The Verge: Deezer launches an AI music detector for other streaming services. “Deezer will now scan your playlists on other streaming platforms to detect AI-generated music. Deezer was the first of the big streaming services to start labeling AI-generated music.”

Tubefilter: YouTube is making AI labels easier to read (and applying them automatically). “A pivot to ‘automatic AI detection’ will make YouTube’s disclosures even more efficient. Beginning this month, YouTube will automatically apply AI labels when its systems pick up on ‘significant photorealistic AI use.'”

MakeUseOf: Wikipedia may have built the best AI writing detection guide. “Wikipedia’s Signs of AI Writing page isn’t an app or a checklist. It’s just a simple page, meant primarily for Wikipedia’s own articles written in wikitext. But even outside the encyclopedia, it might help you eyeball the next piece of AI writing you come across.”