Is your human-written content being flagged as AI-edited? This situation is now becoming common. When we surf the Internet, we unknowingly come across content created by AI. The line between AI and human-written content is now so blurred that it has become difficult to distinguish.
But the real problem is that AI detectors that claim they can distinguish between human and AI-generated content often mislabel human-generated content as AI-generated. This has created a misconception in our industry where people are over-relying on AI checkers and thus limiting their content creation abilities.
But is this fear really justified? The fact that Google itself has acknowledged responsible AI use shows that there is nothing wrong with using AI responsibly. All this commotion is happening without any major issue.
Let's delve deeper into this and learn how the limitations of AI checkers are pushing us in the wrong direction and how we can use this technology the right way.
Our other company, MyAnimeThoughts, faced a similar experience. They checked their human-written content with the Quilt Bot AI checker, which was simple, clear, and factual. But what was surprising was that Quilt Bot it as 79% AI coverage.
When they checked the same article with GPTZero and Copyleaks, it found it to be 88-93% human-covered. This inconsistency shows how wrong AI checkers can be. This warns us that we should not completely depend on these tools and human verification is needed to ensure the genuineness and quality of the content.
This experience taught us how important it is to maintain the right balance of technology and the human element.
Our team prepared a detailed report to show how we use AI responsibly. Our content process begins with the SEO team developing a topic cluster, where keywords are determined. The content team then does manual research and with the help of AI tools, puts that research into a formulaic form.
Our writers use AI tools to make revisions, such as rewriting a definition. For example, "Exchange rate is the rate at which one country's currency can be exchanged for another country's currency," could be transformed into an AI-generated sentence, such as: "Think of it like how much you pay for a burger." Can buy a taco.”
This process reflects how AI is used only as an assistant and not as the main author. The content then goes through our rigorous editing process, which involves expert editors, copy editors, and content leads.
We learned several things from this experience:
When it comes to AI checkers, they often give wrong results. For example, OpenAI itself discontinued its AI-generated text classifier in July 2023 because its accuracy was too low.
Turnitin, a well-known AI detector in the education sector, claims to have a false positive rate of less than 1%. But it misses 15% of AI-covered content. This shows that these tools are not yet mature and not completely reliable.
AI checkers often use 'pattern recognition', which examines the complexity and unpredictability of writing. On the basis of 'perplexity' and 'burstiness' they estimate whether an article is written by a human or by AI. But the problem is that these qualities can appear in different ways in both human and AI writing, and are difficult to identify accurately.
False Positives and Negatives: These tools can flag a creative article as AI-covered or ignore an AI-generated article. This is a game of chance, which is not enough for professional content.
Relying excessively on AI checkers can have several unexpected and far-reaching consequences: