DetectorsExplainer
Perplexity, Burstiness, and the Myth of the Machine Fingerprint
Every AI detector claims to see something in your writing. Here is what they are actually measuring — and why it was never a fingerprint to begin with.
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How AI detectors work, where they fail, and who trusts them anyway.
DetectorsAnalysis
Your Essay Isn’t a Robot. Neither Is the Constitution.
False positives aren’t a rounding error in AI detection. They are the predictable result of how detectors work — and the people they land on are not random.
DetectorsAnalysis
Watermarks Were Supposed to Settle This
Hide a statistical signature in every sentence a model writes, and detection becomes math instead of guesswork. So why hasn’t it ended the argument?
DetectorsHistory
OpenAI Built a Detector, Then Quietly Turned It Off
In 2023, the company behind ChatGPT released its own AI text classifier. Six months later it was gone, citing a “low rate of accuracy.” The lesson still hasn’t sunk in.