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AI text detectors struggle when language models mimic an author's style

Epoch AI tested three leading AI text detectors (Pangram, GPTZero, and Originality.ai) and found that up to 18% of AI-generated passages went undetected when language models mimicked an author's style. For scientific writing, the miss rate climbed as high as 48%, raising concerns about the reliability of these detectors in real-world applications.

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Epoch AI tested three leading AI text detectors (Pangram, GPTZero, and Originality.ai) using style-imitated texts. Up to 18 percent of AI-generated passages went undetected. For scientific writing, the miss rate climbed as high as 48 percent, the very genre where these detectors likely see the most real-world use.

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