Comment on OpenAI admits that AI writing detectors don’t work

DopamineDaydreams@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The issue is that schools have been using detectors to flag AI essays. When students (wrongly) get caught up in them, they get penalized even if they never used any AI to help them write the essay in question. Sort of like a plagiarism filter falsely flagging a paragraph as plagiarized, even if the student didn’t plagiarize it.

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  • Ultraviolet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It also disproportionately flags the work of neurodivergent students, to add a bonus reason that these detectors are a dogshit idea.

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    • ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not that I don’t believe you, because I do, but do you have a citation for this?

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      • LukeMedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Neurodivergent people are secretly robots, and sometimes the AI text detectors can pick up on this, and risk ruining our cover.

        In all seriousness, I looked it up out of curiosity and couldn’t find a study stating that, but that isn’t surprising as the use of AI detectors is relatively new. I do think there is a high likelihood that the statement is true, just due to how a neurodivergent person often writes compared to a neurotypical person. This is not something that you could say matter-of-fact though, just anecdotally.

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  • DopamineDaydreams@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh yeah it's an issue, but none of that is on OpenAI. There's no admission here. It's a statement from an authority to shut up the idiots, like a map maker saying earth is a sphere, something we already know but somehow it's still believed by many.

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