On the one hand, this is sorely needed: AI detection software will inevitably be mostly snake oil.
Academia and education desperately wants this software to work! As a result, selling them something that doesn't work is going to be very profitable.
The most obvious problem with this class of software is how easy it would be to defeat if the students could access it themselves: generate some text, run it through the detector, then fiddle with it (by manually tweaking it or by prompting the AI to "reword this to be less perfect") until it passes.
Which means these tools need to not be openly available... which makes them much harder to honestly test and evaluate, making it even easier to sell something that doesn't actually work.
But... I don't think this site is particularly convincing right now. It has spelling mistakes (which at least help demonstrate AI probably didn't write it) and the key "How AI Detection Software Works" page has a "Coming Soon" notice.
The "examples" page is pretty unconvincing right now too - and that's the page I expect to get the most attention: https://itwasntai.com/examples
It looks to me like this is still very much under development, and is not yet ready for wider distribution.
Academia and education desperately wants this software to work! As a result, selling them something that doesn't work is going to be very profitable.
The most obvious problem with this class of software is how easy it would be to defeat if the students could access it themselves: generate some text, run it through the detector, then fiddle with it (by manually tweaking it or by prompting the AI to "reword this to be less perfect") until it passes.
Which means these tools need to not be openly available... which makes them much harder to honestly test and evaluate, making it even easier to sell something that doesn't actually work.
But... I don't think this site is particularly convincing right now. It has spelling mistakes (which at least help demonstrate AI probably didn't write it) and the key "How AI Detection Software Works" page has a "Coming Soon" notice.
The "examples" page is pretty unconvincing right now too - and that's the page I expect to get the most attention: https://itwasntai.com/examples
It looks to me like this is still very much under development, and is not yet ready for wider distribution.