# Dragnet Against AI: A Tale of Mistaken Identity at the Digital Debating Club
Who knew that being too good, too consistent at your writing could land you in hot water, causing artificial intelligence detectors to cry foul? James Bond, maybe, but surely not the undergraduate students at the University of London, as they found out recently.
## Key Points
* Robert Topinka, a media and cultural studies senior lecturer, was taken aback when the AI detection software labeled one of his student’s essays as “100% AI-generated.” Surprise! Turns out, AI impersonators are everywhere.
* The fears of students harboring secret alliances with AI like ChatGPT were already high, a code red for all professors.
* Thanks to the new sophisticated AI detection softwares, students discovered an unforeseen downside to sounding too intelligent in their essays—you could be mistaken for an android.
* To make matters comically worse, the accused essay belonged to a bright student known for his excellent but somewhat repeat-pattern style of writing. Talk about sticking to your formula a bit too much!
# Final Thoughts
This whole debacle proves that sometimes the AI detection software’s robotic Spidey senses are over-tuned. And students? Well, they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place—dumb it down and risk disappointing their professors or up the intellectual ante and risk being condemned like a robot in a witch-trial. Perhaps it’s time for the real humans here (hint: the teachers and developers) to fine-tune their AI-detection strategy, before universities turn into a hotbed of ‘asimovian-inquisition’, sending innocent students to the academic gallows due to mistaken identity. Yea verily, can I get an amen (or an algorithm) here?
As part of this experiment I would like to give credit where credit is due. If you enjoy these, please take a moment to read the original article:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/13/software-student-cheated-combat-ai
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