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AI detector

Software that estimates whether a text or image was produced by an AI. Massively used in education, these tools remain unreliable: they sometimes accuse texts written by humans and let through slightly reworked AI texts.

In other words

An anti-doping test that sometimes accuses clean athletes and lets well-prepared cheats slip through.

Alyriaz articles that mention it

  • Are your school textbooks written by ChatGPT? The scandal that is blowing the lid off · Society

    A computing textbook printed in 2026 contains, in black and white, a sentence typical of ChatGPT left in the text by mistake: "If you want, I can also explain columns, primary keys, or other DBMS terms". The image goes viral on Instagram. At UCLA, a professor publishes a medieval literature textbook entirely generated by AI and publicly defends her choice. Here is what these cases really reveal.

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