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sobinsamuel
I feel a sense of shame as an Indian seeing the Prime Minister using AI to write condolence messages
cwillu
No actual evidence has been provided here.
Skyy93
You are aware that these detectors can fail? Its up to you to believe them or not.
justinl33
agreed - it's sketchy when universities make claims with these detectors as a basis
Skyy93
IIRC there was a case where a professor in the US tried to fail students based on such a detector and they were able to prove via Google Docs Revision History that they had actually typed it themselves. It is also stupid to claim to be able to detect an AI that imitates human behavior, of course at the beginning you can still find patterns that repeat themselves, but at some point they no longer do because the imitation is perfect, especially because speech is not a medium as susceptible to noise as sound, for example.
cwillu
I'd be shocked if the vast majority of condolence messages didn't read as “ai generated”; they're extremely formulaic.

Alternatively: using an ai detector on an instance from a class of message, without doing tests on known-good and known-bad instances, is meaningless.