AI detectors—why do we need one? Why do we need ‘AI detectors’ when it is the age of AI and everything is supposed to have artificial intelligence as the norm? With AI freely accessible to everyone, the merge has become so ubiquitous that it has become somewhat difficult to distinguish the contribution of human minds from that of AI. While AI has created ripples of worry and concern across platforms, we will be addressing the issues pertaining only to AI-generated content in particular.
It is tragically magical when a student with a track record of arrears seems to have been touched by the Almighty himself. How? One fine morning, he writes a piece of work that only the most promising of their students could barely match. The student has found a loophole in the system that he will salvage for grades while his weaknesses go unaddressed.
In another corner of the world, an article was published that says that a certain company rhyming with the word “Gnat ppt” has joined the Illuminati, causing an increase in market shares by 45%, according to the study conducted by completelyhallucinated.com
If you haven’t gotten the joke yet, with some AI models hallucinating facts and figures, artificial intelligence may also be synonymous with the phrase ‘believable absurdity’. Especially when humans choose to believe AI blindly with no background check of the references it generates out of thin air.
This core issue has implications in a variety of fields, the most obvious being academia. Students extensively used AI to create low-quality output that lacked originality, which makes it difficult to gauge the student’s capabilities. Even the publication of articles necessitates gatekeeping to ensure the credibility and quality of the materials released. Even in the fields of journalism and media, or marketing and e-commerce, the legitimacy of the facts presented is something to be looked into.
At this point, one might ask, If AI can’t be used to write materials, then why is it there in the first place? The whole point of AI was to enable human minds better and cater to mundane tasks that impede human genius, not take over human work as a whole. Moreover, since AI is available everywhere, it has raised the benchmark of what’s considered normal. If we take the context of marketing, AI content is easily spottable, hence, marketers have to create unique identities for their companies that make them stand apart.
This is where AI detectors assist and facilitate the refining process. Good AI detectors are trained with a plethora of samples of AI and human-generated text. AI generation has high predictability (perplexity in technical terms) and low uniqueness (or burstiness in technical terms), which is directly opposed to human-written content. AI detectors statistically analyze and map the patterns created in AI content, and they flag AI content in newer pieces of writing.
Yes, AI models are being improved, and AI detectors are forever engaged in a cat-and-mouse chase to keep up with these advancements. This means that AI detectors ae never 100 percent correct. There may be instances where AI content is flagged as human and vice versa. The simple remedy to this is to use multiple AI detectors to help you make an informed decision.
Now, you may wonder, multiple AI tools? Would it not be easier if AI content was banned forever? Purchasing multiple tools is an unnecessary expense for companies, especially when there are a plethora of tools that need to be used across verticals. Thankfully, this is not as expensive as one might assume, thanks to HireQuotient’s AI detector, where you can feed up to 25000 words in a single input, which is not seen in other models. However, it is free forever, with no need to sign up. This makes it easier for small and medium businesses, as they can test the proficiency of AI detectors.
Taking the polar opposite stance of banning AI will not lead to the most optimal result. AI can assist humans in the research process and also provide the ignition to make better quality content, especially for writers who constantly face burnout and writer’s block from time to time. And writers are also kept on their toes to ensure that the content they create is unique.
So, instead of completely letting AI take over the content or removing it, the best way to go about it is to balance its use to ensure that the involvement of human intent and intelligence is adequately present in the content created. AI detectors will help coerce this idea and prevent mediocre content from taking precedence.
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