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Today in Innovating with AI Magazine, our intrepid reporter Toni Matthews-El digs into a fascinating double-game being played by the "AI detector" companies:

​Sell schools the AI detector, sell students the workaround.​

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To be honest, I haven't used AI detectors much since first playing with tools like GPTZero in 2024. I'm not grading papers for high school and college students, and I actually encourage my employees to write "boring" documents like proposals and software specs with the help of AI.

(Not this email, though - everything you receive from me is hand-written because my goal is to make a human connection with every IWAI reader.)

So, does it really matter if someone uses AI to write a paragraph?
A document?
A book?

And perhaps more importantly - what does it say about these "detector" companies that they are playing both sides, by selling both AI detectors and AI humanizers to avoid the detectors? Even the ones who try to elide this point have categories like "For Teachers" and "For Students" on their home page - giving away the double game.

To me, that seems like a gigantic red flag about their ethics and the value of either piece of software.