If there is any false positive rate (which, because text will naturally and by chance include tokens from the green and red sets in some pattern, there will be), tools making promises like "detect AI-generated text" are unacceptable. They are going to turn innocent people into pariahs on some unsubstantiated "this content is 37% likely to be AI" claim that the user has no way of verifying or inspecting more deeply, we just have to trust the statistical box and assign some meaning to whatever that number means. 37% of my phrases are AI? There's a 37% chance my entire text is AI written? Part of the fun is not knowing!
This is scripture homeopathy and it's irresponsible.
This is scripture homeopathy and it's irresponsible.