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By Iris Zhao and Sally Brooks 

International students and researchers concerned tools to detect AI-generated text may be inaccurate

International students are concerned their original writing is being flagged as AI-generated text. (Unsplash: Andrew Neel)

When Jia Li ran a draft university essay through a computer program used to detect content generated by artificial intelligence, it concluded that just over half was likely machine written.

The program flagged sentences the international student wrote in Chinese and then translated to English using a computer, but also others she wrote in English herself.

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