Turnitin’s AI writing–detection tool has a higher false positive rate than the company originally asserted, according to Annie Chechitelli, the company’s chief product officer. When the product was released in April, Turnitin promoted it has having a less than 1 percent false positive rate. Now, the company has not disclosed the new document-level false positive rate. “We remain steadfast in our strategy to be transparent with the education community about our findings and progress,” Chechitelli wrote. Turnitin attributes the discrepancy to the difference between testing the company did in the lab and experiences users had in the real world.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/06/01/turnitins-ai-detector-higher-expected-false-positives
