Unmasking the Machine: How AI Can Detect an AI Essay or Article?

Author(s): Veritas AI

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The line between original human-generated text and artificially intelligent text has gotten blurrier with each passing day in the digital creation of content. The better AI gets at compiling articles and essays indistinguishable from those written by humans, the stronger the need to tell them, particularly in academia, journalism, and professional contexts. That very need has become a catalyst for developing tools and techniques using AI to detect AI-generated content. Here’s how it works.

AI-generated content typically comes from deep learning models, most known model is the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT). These models are normally trained on huge datasets of various texts taken from books, articles, websites, and other diverse places. While this output can sometimes seem very much like a human, there are still some hallmarks that can easily make it identifiable, such as:

Uniformity in Style: AI tends to have the same style since it lacks the inherent mood and style shifts that human writers may face.Repetitive Patterns: AI can repeat uncommon words or phrases. This may be a consequence of the statistical nature in which it learns.Lack of depth: Most AI-generated content lacks deep understanding… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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