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Why it’s so hard to tell if a piece of text was written by AI – even for AI

  • Written by Ambuj Tewari, Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan
imageLarge language models have become extremely good at mimicking human writing.Robert Wicher/iStock via Getty Images

People and institutions are grappling with the consequences of AI-written text. Teachers want to know whether students’ work reflects their own understanding; consumers want to know whether an advertisement was written by a human...

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