Over the last couple of years, countless news stories have been written about the growing impact of AI. Although it is a very promising technology, most people are pretty wary of it. One survey published last summer found that people are twice as likely to view AI as a net negative to society as a net positive. Only 15% of people saw it as a net positive while 31% viewed it as a net negative.
One of the many reasons that people are concerned about the proliferation of artificial intelligence is that so many people are misled by AI generated content that they believed was made by humans. This has led to a ton of new problems, such as students cheating on their assignments and scammers taking advantage of unwitting victims.
Fortunately, some companies are developing tools to help people fight back. One of these companies is AI Detector, which has a service that is capable of determining if text is written by AI carry out this can help mitigate some of the growing concerns people have about artificial intelligence.
AI Detectors Are the First Line of Defense Against AI Content
AI technology has done some good things for the world, but it has also created its share of problems. Some of these problems have been downright terrifying.
A couple of months ago, an international news website published a story about a Chinese man in Shanghai that fell victim to a romance scam orchestrated by AI. The scammers used AI to create written messages, photos and video to trick the man into thinking he was in a serious relationship with someone online. He sent the scammers $28,000 before discovering that he was a scam victim.
There are a lot of other examples of the dangers of AI that don’t receive as much publicity, even though they are a lot more prevalent. One survey has found that 56% of college students admitted to cheating on assignments with AI. Many publishers and scientific journals have been tricked into publishing erroneous information generated with AI as well.
All of these examples underscore the reasons that people need to be diligent about identifying AI content. This is where AI detectors become so important.
What Are AI Detectors?
AI detectors are software applications that are trained on documents created by both AI and humans. They use sophisticated machine learning algorithms to learn to tell the difference between both types of content.
Here are some of the things that AI detectors look for when determining if content was made with AI or not:
- They have learned to notice that some words show up much more frequently in text written by AI than humans. Some of the words that are frequently used by AI that aren’t as popular with human-written content include “elevate”, “leverage” and “resonate.” AI detectors report content is likely written by AI if it uses these words a lot.
- They have machine learning algorithms that can tell the difference between sentence structures of content written by AI and those in content written by people. Content written by AI tends to have shorter and simpler sentences, because it has a difficult time understanding concepts well enough to elaborate on them in detail.
- They have noticed that content made with AI tends to have lower levels of perplexity. This means that AI content tends to be simple and easy to understand. It also doesn’t have many original ideas.
They are continually trained on new documents, so they can keep getting better at telling if content was made with AI or not.
But Do AI Detectors Actually Work?
Many people are still skeptical that AI detectors can effectively determine if content was generated with AI or not. However, objective studies have found that they seem to be pretty effective. We conducted our own study a few months ago, which found that one popular AI detector successfully flagged five of the six AI generated documents that we uploaded. The only one that it missed was written several years ago with an older AI model.
Since AI detectors are becoming so effective at telling if content is made with AI or not, they can help people avoid the risks of falling for AI-generated text. This means that they can help people avoid falling victim to AI phishing scams and ensure professors can catch students trying to cheat on assignments.
AI Detectors Are Crucial for Fighting the Plague of AI-Generated Text
AI content is becoming a growing problem for people all over the world. They have to deal with more spam, misinformation and other problems than ever before. They are going to have to do everything they possibly can to avoid these problems. The good news is that AI detectors have become very effective at identifying AI to help people avoid these problems.
