Three days ago, the Washington Post ran an editorial calling on schools to ban AI detectors. Two weeks ago, NPR reported on a high-school student whose grade was docked based on a detector score despite her insistence she wrote the essay herself. Earlier this year, Vanderbilt and Curtin joined a growing list of universities that … Read more
By Sanjay Saini, AI Trainer and Consultant, 30+ years in IT Last updated: [DATE] Walk onto the homepage of any major AI detector and you will see confident numbers. Winston AI says 99.98% accuracy. Originality.ai says 99%. GPTZero says 99% on its own benchmark. Turnitin implies something similar when it markets to universities. If those … Read more
If you’ve ever pasted a piece of writing into Originality.ai, GPTZero, or Turnitin and watched it spit back “87% AI-generated,” you’ve probably had the same question I hear every week from the teams I consult: How does the tool actually know? And the follow-up question, usually asked more quietly: Can I trust it? I’ve spent … Read more