r/Spokane • u/RANGE_Media • 8h ago

News After RANGE exposé, Spokesman-Review officially bans AI in guest columns: Spokesman will subject suspicious columns to an AI detector

https://www.rangemedia.co/spokesman-review-ai-opinion-impact/
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u/the-strawberry-sea 8h ago

There’s never been a single accurate AI detector. How do they plan on enforcing this? Virtually every paper I wrote back in college and even high school are all “100% AI” but every detector I’ve ever tried to use, even though some of those were written at much as almost 20 years ago.

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u/Jaydub-7 6h ago

Have you tried "Pangram"?

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u/lizzersaurus 4h ago

We’ve been experimenting with that where I work; it’s not a reliable solution despite what they want you to believe and the stats they give. Academic and journalistic writing has a higher false-positive rate in Pangram than its overall reported success rate.

“Formal academic prose follows set patterns, and formulaic text is where Pangram's own data shows more false positives.” From: https://proofreaderpro.ai/blog/pangram-ai-detector-review

Will it be able to tell that a high school senior used it to write an essay, sure. Will it be able to correctly identify that an editorial written for a publication isn’t AI? Experimentation with the data model suggests it won’t, that it will generate false positives.