AI detectors face criticism over reliability and impact on trust

A Center for Democracy and Technology survey found 43 percent of US teachers in grades 6-12 regularly used AI detection tools between 2024 and 2025. These detectors, including GPTZero and Turnitin, rely on AI models to estimate human authorship rather than comparing text against existing databases.
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