Straight answers on AI detection, deepfakes and provenance.
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Does Google penalise AI-written blog posts, and does it run a detector?
Freelance copywriter here. A client sent me a clause for the new contract: I must "guarantee no AI-generated text, because Google penalises it." He also runs...
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How accurate are AI detectors on short texts like a 150-word discussion post?
I TA for a writing course, and weekly discussion posts are capped at about 150 words. An instructor in another section has started pasting every post into a...
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How are AI-cloned voices used in election robocalls, and does anyone detect them in time?
Election season brings back a worry that I cannot settle from reading. Voice cloning is now cheap and quick, and an automated call is the cheapest way to reach...
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Can a deepfake pass a video job interview, and how do recruiters check?
I run trust and safety for a marketplace, and we are about to hire a batch of remote contractors for moderation and support roles. HR asked me last week...
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Why do GPTZero, ZeroGPT, QuillBot and Grammarly give different AI scores?
They disagree because they are answering different questions with different models, different training data and different cut-offs. A "70%" from one tool is a...
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My humanities department wants to ban detectors and go oral exams only, is that realistic?
Our humanities department has had enough of detector scores and the arguments that follow them. At the last meeting a senior colleague proposed to ban...
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Can I watermark my own writing so I can prove it is mine later?
After the false flag a few weeks ago, I want a better answer than "trust me" the next time a client questions a piece. I keep reading about watermarks and...
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Student admits using AI for an outline only, is that misconduct under a typical policy?
A tenth grader came to me before I had to ask. He told me he had asked a chatbot for an outline for his essay on a novel we are reading, then wrote every...
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Which free AI text detectors are actually worth trying for a quick check?
I am a freelance copywriter. I have never run my own work through a detector before this year. Then a client sent me a screenshot of a score on a piece I wrote...
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Do AI image detectors work on screenshots and compressed social media copies?
Most of what reaches our desk is not an original file. It is a screenshot of a post, a repost that has been through two platforms, or a picture someone sent on...
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How do I spot an AI-generated product review before I buy?
I work on trust and safety for an online marketplace, so I spend my days looking at reviews that someone wants me to believe, and I am still unsure what to...
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Are AI detectors allowed under GDPR when the school runs student essays through a US company?
I study law at a university in the EU and I am writing a short paper on automated detection in education. The case I keep coming back to is simple. A...
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Does dictating an essay with speech-to-text and then cleaning it up look like AI to detectors?
My son broke his right wrist at the start of term and has been dictating his essays since. He talks through each paragraph into the voice typing feature in a...
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I ran my own 2019 essays through a detector and half came back as AI. Is that normal?
I did a small experiment for a workshop I teach. I dug out twelve essays I wrote in 2019, years before any of these chat assistants existed, and ran them...
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What does the Content Credentials pin on an image actually tell me, and can it be faked?
We have started seeing a small "CR" pin on images that reach our desk, from agency feeds and from a couple of platforms. Click it and you get a panel with a...
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Can AI voice detectors run on a live phone call, or only on recordings?
ok so this came up after a few of you on the forum were talking about family emergency scam calls. i make a podcast and i've played around with voice cloning...
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Our school wants to buy a deepfake detector for staff. What should we look for?
I teach English at a secondary school, and I have been asked to sit on a small group that will recommend whether the school buys a deepfake detector for staff...
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Is a screenshot of an AI detector result worth anything as evidence?
A procedural question from my side of the desk. More and more often, a referral to my office arrives with an attachment that is a screenshot. Sometimes it is a...
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How do I check whether a LinkedIn profile photo is AI generated?
I run trust and safety at a marketplace, and a growing share of the seller accounts we review have a polished headshot and a thin, slightly generic...
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Can an AI detector tell which model wrote something (ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini)?
I get this question from colleagues often enough that I want to see how people here handle it. Someone pastes a paragraph into a detector, gets "likely AI"...
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