As AI text detection gets better, so does AI text

It may soon become common to encounter a tweet, essay or news article and wonder if it was written by artificial intelligence software. There could be questions over the authorship of a given piece of writing, like in academic settings, or the veracity of its content, in the case of an article.

There could also be questions about authenticity: If a misleading idea suddenly appears in posts across the internet, is it spreading organically, or have the posts been generated by AI to create the appearance of real traction?

Tools to identify whether a piece of text was written by AI have started to emerge in recent months, including one created by OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.