This is the purpose of an AI detector
Off the top of your head it may feel pretty obvious that it is to detect AI generated content, and that is largely true. But the truth is that the main capability a detector like this has is to find traces. No AI detector in the world can say with 100% certainty whether a text, video, audio file or other type of file was created with the help of artificial intelligence. However good the service may be, there is only a certain probability. And that is what a detector like this does, it gives you a probability. Then it is up to you as a human to decide in the end whether it is AI, or not. After all, it is an AI being used to detect other AI, and we cannot say with 100% certainty that our particular AI is not being fooled by the other one.
Who needs to use a service like this
Primarily it is various types of companies that buy digital services, but also government agencies. But bluntly you could also say everyone, since many do not label whether the content they have published online is AI-generated. Most commonly, private individuals post pictures and videos on social media, and some older people in particular cannot always see the difference. It may seem harmless, but sometimes creates incredible problems. Especially if someone posts a video and pretends to be someone else, it can have serious consequences.
Schools & universities use AI detectors daily
Among those who were first to start using AI detectors were actually schools. They quickly realised that children from primary school up to university, had quickly started using AI to do homework and exams. For many schools, the countermeasure quickly became marking tests and exams with the help of an AI reviewer, to see whether the questions had been answered correctly. After that they ran the same text through an AI detector to see whether it was created by artificial intelligence. The point of school is also for you to be able to think for yourself, which is very dangerous with AI chats in particular. Many younger people in particular stop thinking critically for themselves.
Others who use AI scanner programs
Below you have some others who use AI detectors almost daily.
- Government agencies
- Social Platforms
- Companies
- Newspapers
How an AI detector works in practice
The actual technology an AI detector uses is really the same as AI that writes, meaning that it guesses which word should come next. All types of AI-generated content work in the same way, which then creates a pattern. An AI tasked with detecting traces of artificial intelligence, will in other words try to guess what the word after another word should be. If this matches up all too well, it will also be flagged as probably AI-generated content. Of course this is not entirely 100% certain, since in theory it could be a human who has written by hand exactly as an AI chat would have done. This is highly unlikely though, and even less so the longer the text being reviewed.
How our AI detector specifically works
Of course we will not be able to write out here exactly how we have chosen to program our AI detector, but it makes an overall assessment of over 100 different points. It would be foolish to reveal what exactly we look for, because then cheaters will try to adapt their AI agent to that. And it is largely also a game of cat and mouse, where everyone tries to be smarter than the other. What we can say is that our AI detector is the most accurate on the web, which you can read more about in our article on why we have the best AI detector.