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Timnit Gebru (she/her).Aug 22, 2023

And another message. There was absolutely no need for this and we got the companies wanting to create an AGI god, putting these students in this awful situation. These "AI detection" tools need to be banned.

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K~Aug 22, 2023

@timnitGebru

I know AI detection was a hot thing for a brief moment; but my impression was that the brief moment has already passed - and people generally now understand that the AI detection is inherently unreliable.

Here is an article about why AI detectors claim the US constitution was written by AI:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/why-ai-detectors-think-the-us-constitution-was-written-by-ai/3/

And here's an article about OpenAI discontinuing their AI detector because it doesn't work:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/openai-discontinues-its-ai-writing-detector-due-to-low-rate-of-accuracy/

So yeah; people should stop using it.

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Pre LLM I got accused of plagiarism for participating in a Newsgroup discussion on a Neuropsychology paper discussing a topic I was writing a report on. I can't explain how demotivating and disincentivising being accused of plagiarism is when you've actually put effort into primary research.