eli5: how does ai detection work?

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eli5: how does ai detection work?

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I’m sure they’re not all created equally, but this is one way that they work.

The ai text detector starts at the beginning word of a text and checks how likely the following word is to come after it. Think about the predictive text feature on your phone. The more often the next word is predicable, the higher likelihood that it was written by a chatbot. Chat bots have a high frequency of predictable text and humans have a mixed frequency of predictable text.