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Who has the most accurate AI detector?

Asked by Colin R. · 1 reply · updated

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Easy answer: the paid ones are accurate and the free ones are junk. If a detector costs real money it has real engineering behind it. I would just pick the most expensive one and be done.

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From the top reply by Bryn C. ·
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    Who has the most accurate AI detector? I lead SEO content at an agency, and a client wants us to run every article through one detector before delivery. They asked me to pick the most accurate one and put it in the contract, so I need a real answer and not a marketing page.

    I ran the same 30 drafts through five popular detectors last week. Some drafts were written by our freelancers, some were chatbot drafts that an editor reworked, and a few were pure chatbot output. The scores did not agree. One detector called a freelancer's article mostly AI, another called the same article mostly human, and on the reworked chatbot drafts they were all over the place.

    Every vendor says it is the most accurate. Is there any independent comparison I can trust, or any way to say which one wins? What would you put in a contract, if anything?

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  1. Bryn C.Member ·

    Easy answer: the paid ones are accurate and the free ones are junk. If a detector costs real money it has real engineering behind it. I would just pick the most expensive one and be done.

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