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by jandrese 1129 days ago
An AI detector is basically a plagiarism detector trained on AI datasets. Fundamentally it's about discovering writing that is too similar to existing writing, which is why I'm concerned about false positives.
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Yeah, which is why "AI detection" is crap. It's basically the plagiarism detector with the false-positive dampening turned off. (I know, I know, it may not be exactly that under the hood, but I think that's what it amounts to in practice).

I think you and I agree. I'm just saying that the "AI wrote this" flag on something that's notoriously not AI-written should be enough to reject outright the use of these detectors.

Like a mechanic who warns me that my Tesla doesn't have a muffler. They're technically correct, but I wouldn't trust them to diagnose anything in the future.