OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work

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Previous discussion on this article,

OpenAI admits that AI writing detectors don’t work (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37435564) (17 points | 4 days ago | 6 comments)

And a relevant discussion from a while ago,

OpenAI shuts down its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862850) (503 points | 2 months ago | 283 comments)

[iinnPP]

I'm shocked the idea was ever humoured at all. How many collective hours have been wasted on this idea?

What is wrong? Seriously.

[nh23423fefe]

Its important to prevent children from cheating on meaningless essays, dontchaknow

[fooker]

This, in my mind, is a good indication that we are on track to AGI.

I have no idea about the timeline though.

[tavavex]

Why? In my mind, AGI could be an entirely different field - we don't really know much about it yet.

[solsane]

Yeah, if there’s a way to discriminate AI from human writing that could also be used to train a better AI and become indistinguishable again.