A group of Stanford researchers recently decided to put AI detectors to the test, and if it was a graded assignment, the detection tools would have received an F.
“Our main finding is that current AI detectors are not reliable in that they can be easily fooled by changing prompts,” says James Zou, a Stanford professor and co-author of the paper based on the research. More significantly, he adds, “They have a tendency to mistakenly flag text written by non-native English speakers as AI-generated.”
