Tag Archives: AI detectors

OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work

reader comments 80 with Last week, OpenAI published tips for educators in a promotional blog post that shows how some teachers are using ChatGPT as an educational aid, along with suggested prompts to get started. In a related FAQ, they also officially admit what we already know: AI writing detectors don’t work, despite frequently being… Read More »

California deploys AI-powered wildfire detection systems

Getty Images reader comments 28 with California’s main firefighting agency, Cal Fire, is training AI models to detect visual signs of wildfires using a network of 1,039 high-definition cameras, reports The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. When it sees signs of smoke, it quickly warns firefighters of emerging threats. During the pilot… Read More »

OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a slot machine in a desert. Midjourney reader comments 38 with On Thursday, OpenAI quietly pulled its AI Classifier, an experimental tool designed to detect AI-written text. The decommissioning, first noticed by Decrypt, occurred with no major fanfare and was announced through a small note added to OpenAI’s official… Read More »

Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of James Madison writing the US Constitution using AI. Midjourney / Benj Edwards reader comments 84 with If you feed America’s most important legal document—the US Constitution—into a tool designed to detect text written by AI models like ChatGPT, it will tell you that the document was almost certainly written by… Read More »