As the "chatbot wars" rage in Silicon Valley, the growing proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools specifically designed to generate human-like text has left many baffled.

 Educators in particular are scrambling to adjust to the availability of software that can produce a moderately competent essay on any topic at a moment's notice. Should we go back to pen-and-paper assessments? Increasing exam supervision? Ban the use of AI entirely?
 

All these and more have been proposed. However, none of these less-than-ideal measures would be needed if educators could reliably distinguish AI-generated and human-written .

We dug into several proposed methods and tools for recognizing AI-generated text. None of them are foolproof, all of them are vulnerable to workarounds, and it's unlikely they will ever be as reliable as we'd like.

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