Detecting AI Generated Text — a Hard Problem

BoredGeekSociety
4 min readAug 18, 2023

Generative AI taking over the content generating space, raises legitimate concerns. As a matter of fact, the potential for these models to “hallucinate” or produce factually incorrect content intensifies the urgency for reliable detection mechanisms.

Goal: we need a way to determine when a content was generated, even partially, by an AI. Yet, the task of detecting AI generated text proved to be very challenging!

Can we truly detect AI-generated text? Several initiatives announced their capability to detect it, only to later…

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Wassim Jouini, CTO and Head of AI @LegalPlace. 12yrs+ Building AI & Automation products for Scale-Up Startups | Ph.D. AI