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by garylkz 341 days ago
Curious, currently how is the use of AI being detected from papers?

From the article I saw that they're using "excess words" as an indicator, is that a reliable method?

Also, is it possible that it's just autocorrect that added "excess words" when fixing grammar? If that's the case, should that be considered as "use of AI"?

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Bias against the non-native English users is staggering.

_According to the study, all seven AI detectors unanimously identified 18 of the 91 TOEFL student essays (19%) as AI-generated and a remarkable 89 of the 91 TOEFL essays (97%) were flagged by at least one of the detectors._

These papers were not written with use of AI.

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-detectors-biased-against-no...

This is from 2023. Is there an updated source proving that detectors in 2025 are also not accurate?