Joel Anderson writes:

As someone who has been closely following AI development over the past few years, I have to warn that AI detectors are inaccurate at best, fraudulent at worst. There are numerous stories about poor use of AI detectors by college campuses against students. Many of the so-called 'AI Checkers' like ZeroGPT, QuillBot, and others are just fancy frontends overlaid on ChatGPT with simple prompts such as, "Analyze the following text and give a percentage confidence on how much of the text was written by an AI." Of course, these AI detectors proceed to sell a service where they can 'Humanize' texts so that their systems can't detect that an AI wrote it.

ZeroGPT famously got in trouble in early 2023 when its AI claimed that an AI wrote the US Constitution.

This has led to countless false accusations against college students by uninformed professors.

I plugged in Len's response regarding The Numismatist kerfuffle, and it came back saying that only 48% of the text was written by a human.

I'm sorry to say, but AI detectors at this stage aren't reliable. These companies are offering inferior products and capitalizing on people's fears.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: AUGUST 24, 2025 : AI in Numismatic Publishing(https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n34a10.html)