AI detectors falsely flag autistic student's essay as AI-generated

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AI detectors falsely flag autistic student's essay as AI-generated

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4/ Vanderbilt saw it coming. In August 2023, Vanderbilt University disabled Turnitin's AI detection entirely. Their calculation: even a 1% false positive rate across 75,000 submissions produces 750 wrongful accusations per year. They chose to stop accusing innocent students

A student submitted an essay she wrote by hand. Her university ran it through an AI detector. The...3 hours agoNav Toor

2/ Why it cannot be fixed. Prior work assumed one human writing style vs one AI writing style....3 hours agoNav Toor

3/ Who gets wrongly accused the most. A Stanford study tested 7 AI detectors on essays written by...3 hours agoNav Toor

5/ The paper's conclusion in two sentences. "Detection scores should not serve as sole evidence in...3 hours agoNav Toor

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