AI detectors ‘biased’ against non-Anglophones, Stanford tests suggest

AI chatbots like ChatGPT have spurred fears about increasing cheating and plagiarism in schools and academia, but tools designed to detect AI-generated content are also causing unease as they tend to ‘incorrectly’ label writing by non-native English speakers as generated by AI, according to researchers at Stanford University. — dpa

DUBLIN: The spread of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has stoked concerns about cheating and plagiarism in education and academia.

In response, a cottage industry of watchdog systems has sprung up, as teachers and publishers turn to so-called detector programmes to scan essays and articles for signs that they were generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT.