AI tracking AI is a paradox, But people are using it. It seems ridiculous to have AI track itself, it’s like a criminal tracking another criminal.
Though, there could be some upsides, the phrase “it takes one to know one” could back this up. If you set a criminal against another, they would have similar thought processes. However, what matters is the execution of it.
Many reports and tests have shown that AI can even track human-made work as artificial. The opposite is also true; AI can qualify Artificial work as a human. Is this because AI sounds more like humans? Or is it an unreliable source?
Skye Sanchez, a student at Santa Rosa has had encounters like this.
“I don’t think it’s reliable to track Ai with Ai.” Sanchez said, “It’s been proven it doesn’t work but people are too lazy to check it themself.”
Sanchez is a Red-track student whose work was tracked as AI even if it was original content.
“If you’re typing too fast it tracks you as Ai,” Sanchez said “It would take longer to copy something. if you know the answer you’re naturally typing faster.”
Edgenuity is an AI tracker that qualifies as an AI itself. It tracks it based on how long you’re on the tab, how slow or fast it takes to type, and what words you’re using. If you have an expanded vocabulary it would most likely categorize you as an AI.
“They expect people to have a smaller vocabulary,” Sanchez said “It thinks you’re a robot even if you just know larger or longer words.”
Ai and humans have become harder to distinguish, and it’s our fault. Either the AI sounds too human or the human sounds like AI. Most likely the former half.
Time and time again it’s been proven that AI trackers do not work. In Skye’s case, her essays got flared as plagiarism just because she used bigger words, went off the tab, or typed faster.
Santa Rosas’s journalism teacher, Ms. Cairns, has also tested this theory. She put some of her articles as well as AI-generated ones together. The results were mixed.
A completely AI-generated article was qualified as human whereas something she wrote got tracked as AI.
AI does have some benefits that come with it of course, it could be used to help people with hard Tasks, a good example of this is the AI used in Sony’s “Spider-man: Across the Spiderverse.” The learning algorithm was used to aid the animation process, it didn’t necessarily take jobs. It just helped those with them. Along with this, applications such as Grammarly could qualify as AI even if it’s a tool people use everyday.
AI has a lot of nuance to it, there is good, bad, and a gray area. I think it’s our job to use it when we absolutely need to. It’s because of people using AI for work that AI trackers exist, and it gets innocent people in trouble or accused of plagiarism.
