AI detectors miss the mark

Student is seated in foreground of many classmates in a library with an impossibly large sheet of typed text.

As generative AI tools have become readily available to learners, some instructors have turned to AI detectors purporting to call out AI-authored assignments. Unfortunately, there are high error rates when AI detectors are tasked with determining whether a piece of writing is the work of a human or artificial intelligence. Ed tech instructor John Sowash puts AI detectors to the test with a mix of essays in this AI Tools for the Classroom video. Read tips on setting boundaries for AI usage: AI Detectors Don’t Work. Here’s What to Do Instead.

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