nixCraft 🐧Oct 21, 2024

Do AI detectors work? Noop. About 2/3s of teachers report regularly using tools for detecting AI-generated content. At that scale, even tiny error rates can add up quickly.

https://archive.ph/2024.10.18-195252/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-10-18/do-ai-detectors-work-students-face-false-cheating-accusations#selection-1513.0-1513.150

Why are these teachers giving money to third parties sending kids homework for verification? I can't believe teachers can't detect kids' writing. Most humans can easily tell if AI writes it or not. Why does everything have to be so difficult now? It is like nobody wants to use their brains anymore.

Show threadAmelia
@nixCraft It is correct that you are concerned about the reliability of AI detectors most of them are known to be notoriously inaccurate. Even OpenAI cautions that detection systems give false identifications, identifying human-generated work as AI generated and AI work as human-generated. However, to most teachers, the fear of failing to demonstrate originality, particularly in large classes, is seeing many resort to these tools, who cannot be deemed perfect.
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