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Four score and seven beers ago – Why AI writing detectors don't work

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Jul 26, 2025 22:04
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The article explains that AI writing detectors are unreliable, often misclassifying historical texts like the US Constitution as AI-generated due to their reliance on superficial linguistic patterns. This highlights significant limitations in current detection tools and raises concerns about their use in education, publishing, and other fields where distinguishing human from AI writing is important.

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/why-ai-detectors-think-the-us-constitution-was-written-by-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44697285 Points: 3 # Comments: 2
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