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by gtirloni 1075 days ago
> Anyone know the latest on automatic gpt detectors?

There are many out there but I don't know about the "latest". GPT-4 itself says it has only a 10% chance of having been generated by a LLM.

These detectors are really unreliable. I've fed them content that I generated from GPT-4 and they never detect it as AI-generated.

I pity the students whose teachers will use them to detect plagiarism.

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The problem is that you need to actually do training to detect AI text, and no one wants to spend money on that. The actual implementation is very easy:

1. get a corpus of real text

2. generate a corpus of AI text

3. train a model until it can tell the difference

The problem is step 2 is semi-expensive and step 3 is really expensive, so everyone is trying to shortcut the process, and of course it doesn't work.