Why detecting AI-generated text is so difficult (and what to do about it)

This tool is OpenAI's response to the heat it's gotten from educators, journalists, and others for launching ChatGPT without any ways to detect text it has generated. However, it is still very much a work in progress, and it is woefully unreliable. OpenAI says its AI text detector correctly identifies 26% of AI-written text as "likely AI-written." While OpenAI clearly has a lot more work to do to refine its tool, there's a limit to just how good it can make it. We're extremely unlikely to ever get a tool that can spot AI-generated text with 100% certainty.