Why don't AI detectors work?
Turnitin, GPTZero, and others... How tools that detect whether a text was generated by artificial intelligence actually (don’t) work, and what does this mean in practice?
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Turnitin, GPTZero, and others... How tools that detect whether a text was generated by artificial intelligence actually (don’t) work, and what does this mean in practice?
Imagine submitting a scientific article for review—and on the other side, a reviewer opens an artificial intelligence tool. According to a 2025 survey by the publisher Frontiers, more than half of reviewers today use AI when evaluating articles.