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The Inefficiency of AI-Text Detecting Software
How do we know whether what we’re reading is human or AI-generated?
How can it be known whether artificial intelligence (AI) is used when reading a piece of writing? Especially in the case of most writing one finds online –including in mainstream newspapers — it is becoming increasingly difficult to know whether and/or to what degree AI has been used in what one is reading.
From the purview of any average reader, it is fair to say that the likelihood of AI having been used on something like the average opinion editorial in any mainstream newspaper or magazine is of a coinflip chance.
Chance and The Unknown
While it is unfortunate that all we have to go on is probability, it would be sixfolds more sinister (boldfacedly totalitarian, even when done under ‘voluntary’ pretenses) for employers or universities to incorporate tools for monitoring personal devices like TeamViewer, LogMeIn, or VNC—i.e., that which would be necessary to obtain hard data on the situation present at hand.
To obtain the data required to know the degree to which AI is being used in writing necessitates a profound breach of individual privacy and personal sovereignty. In virtue of this issue's sheer…
