Anti-plagiarism tool Turnitin turns on AI-writing detection • The Register

Updated Turnitin, which touts itself as a maker of plagiarism-detecting software for academia, demoed on Tuesday what we're told is a tool capable of detecting AI writing. Crucially, it boasted its machine learning software will flag up computer-generated cheating when it has at least "98 percent confidence" it is right. Be as that may, that's not the same as accuracy. A model can be supremely confident and still completely wrong most of the time. Indeed, tests carried out by the Washington Post found the detection tool's performance lacking.