Tom Dekan

Can we detect AI-generated text?

Published: March 20, 2025

I tested 5 AI-text detectors to see if they could detect LLM-generated text. Here are the results:

The answer is: not well.

As my demo showed, it's pretty easy to bypass detection for most text already. And it's getting increasingly difficult to detect LLM-generated text.

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