#AI detection
17 stories taggedAI detection.
AI Chatbots Are Starting to Watermark Their Text. Here's What That Actually Means
Anthropic and Google are quietly embedding invisible patterns into AI-written words. The technique is nearly undetectable, but critics argue it still changes what you read.
We are 'dangerously close' to a dead internet, says one AI-detection startup
AI-written job applications, fake product reviews, and fabricated insurance claims are flooding the web. A new wave of startups says it can tell what is real. The evidence is still thin.
The 24-Person Brooklyn Startup That Can End a Book Deal
Pangram says it can tell whether writing is human or machine-generated. Publishers are listening. Writers are furious. The question is whether the tool is actually reliable.
LinkedIn's 'AI Slop' Button Has Been Clicked Over a Million Times
The platform says views on posts flagged as AI-generated have dropped 40 percent in just a few weeks, as users take the fight against filler content into their own hands.
One in three web pages published since ChatGPT launched now shows signs of AI authorship
A Pew Research study of nearly half a million web pages found that 35% of those published after November 2022 carry signs of AI writing, arriving just after Cloudflare confirmed bots now outnumber humans in web traffic.
AI Writing Detectors Are Ruining Careers. They Are Also Frequently Wrong.
Students have been suspended, book deals have collapsed, and journalists have been harassed, all based on AI detection tools that their own makers admit are not fully reliable.
An AI Music App's Own Detector Is Now Flagging Two Rappers' Songs as AI-Generated
Fenix Flexin and Tyga both denied using AI to make their retro-synth tracks. Then the app they allegedly used built a detector and ran the songs through it.
A $2 million crime novel deal just collapsed over AI writing fears
A debut thriller was pulled from sale days after a 14-publisher bidding war pushed offers past $2 million. The agent says she can no longer verify how the manuscript was written.
Yale student paid $208,500 for an MBA. Then an AI-cheating accusation cost him his valedictorian spot.
Thierry Rignol says he was on track to graduate first in his class. A suspension and a failing grade later, he filed a 13-count federal lawsuit against one of the most famous universities in the world.
Pangram raises $9 million to catch AI-written text and images before they fool you
A New York startup says its detector is over 99% accurate at spotting AI-generated writing. Substack already uses it. Here's what that means for everyday readers.
Typos on Purpose: How Writers Are Fighting Back Against AI Prose
Novelists, editors and marketers are deliberately bending grammar, ditching em dashes and leaning into first-person mess to prove a human wrote the words.
Substack Now Flags AI-Written Newsletters Before You Read Them
The newsletter platform has partnered with AI detection software Pangram to show readers how much of any post was written by a human. It won't punish writers who use AI, but it will make them harder to hide.
Substack Now Lets Readers Scan Posts for AI-Written Text
A new detection tool built into Substack will estimate how much of any post was written by AI, giving readers a way to check before they invest their time.
Pope Leo XIV's speeches pass AI detection test, weeks after he called AI humanity's biggest threat
An Australian company has officially certified a collection of the Pope's writings as genuinely human-authored. The timing is hard to miss.
Why Spotting AI-Generated Faces Is Getting Harder
AI-generated faces are becoming more convincing, making it tough for ordinary people to spot digital fakes.