Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., has questions.
When the professor and interim chair of the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering saw reports in the media positing that scientific literature is increasingly being generated by artificial intelligence, he wondered, “How do they know?”
Traynor knows the detectors that determine the presence of AI-generated text, known as AIGT, in publications are themselves AI systems. They use the same large language models, called LLMs, that less than honest researchers could be using to generate their text.
How good could they be?
Read more about Watching the Detectors: Researchers Probe Efficacy – and Danger – of AI Detection Tools.
