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We’ve Reached the Point Where AI Has to Catch AI (The Internet Is Full of Slop)

Got a hunch the true author of that article, book, or essay is AI? Run it through the pangram AI detection chrome extension.

By Matt Jancer | Reviewed by Ysolt Usigan

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AI is working hard at making it hard for you to tell it’s AI at all. College essays, news articles, scam emails. AI-written prose masquerading as the final product of real, human sweat and tears (but probably no blood) is everywhere and a spreading plague. So how do you suss out what’s likely AI fakery and what’s not?

Relying upon tells like use of the em dash (the long “—”) and patterns of three is lazy. These useful cornerstones of writing have been used by authors for generations before AI’s arrival, and dismissing any tract that uses them as AI slop will sweep up a lot of innocent human-created work into condemnation.

How do you determine whether a piece was written with AI or whether it’s just a blandly written piece of human creation, then? You can use AI detection. Take Pangram’s AI Detection Chrome extension, for example. It’s free to download; it operates on a freemium model, whereby you pay to access higher-level features. Turning AI against itself has a poetic quality.

An AI detective to unmask ai impersonators

Pangram AI Detection Chrome Extension (opens in a new window)

Garbage in, garbage out. AI’s lauded ability to write clean copy has always fallen flat to me, because by its very design it sucks up huge quantities of existing writing, including other AI-written content, and stews it down into a mixed-together, bland gruel. It doesn’t distinguish much between good writing and just, well, writing. It........

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