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by Version467 219 days ago
All of those tools are garbage. There is no reliable automated way to detect ai generated text. In 2023 OpenAI had a tool for this as well and they eventually took it down because it wasn't accurate enough. The major AI labs are probably best positioned to make such a tool work. If even they can't, then some random company with access to a fraction of a data and a fraction of the compute almost certainly also cannot.
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Agree those tools are unreliable. Unless you have a massive amount of ML models trained on individuals' writing[0], the best you can do is vibe-checking[1].

[0] https://mattsayar.com/can-ai-tell-if-im-writing-ai-slop-a-ma...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing