Comment on OpenAI admits that AI writing detectors don’t work
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year agoI’m glad I went to school before all the automatic scanning…
In college I had a lot of stuff flagged as plagiarism, including a metaphysics paper I wrote in which I created a new hypothesis for consciousness (not necessarily a good one, mind, but entirely unique) because yup, robot.
It’s so weird that writing properly and without error gets you flagged as a cheater…. That supposed to be the damned standard you are being measured on…
But yeah, it sounds highly plausible, but I don’t tend to take assertions as fact without support, so thanks for looking into it for me :)
LukeMedia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
From what I understand, a lot of AI text detectors work from measuring “perplexity and burstiness” which basically means, lower randomness, lower emotion, and sentence uniformity is more likely to get flagged as AI text. Those are all things that can be associated with neurodivergence, so I see where that statement would come from. That’s also the way you are expected to write formal essays.
As for plagiarism detectors, I don’t know much about them except that they false flag the shit out of everything.