AI detector's claimed 1-in-10,000 false positive rate backed by only 40 human samples
anpaure · x · 2026-09-03
In a debate with emubrigadier and N8Programs, anpaure points out that the peer-reviewed paper cited by an AI text detection tool used only 40 human-written texts as its sample. He argues that with n=40 it is arithmetically impossible to infer a claimed false positive rate of 1 in 10,000.
The core issue: the detector's advertised FPR is wildly unsupported by its sample size, raising doubts about how AI text detectors present their accuracy claims.
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