How to Detect AI-Generated Text in 2026 (Tools That Actually Work)
Everyone wants to know if something was written by AI. Teachers checking student essays. Editors vetting freelance submissions. Employers screening job applications. Publishers trying to maintain standards. The problem: AI detection is genuinely hard, and most tools oversell how reliable they are. Here’s what actually works in 2026, and what the limits are. Why AI Detection Is Harder Than It Sounds AI language models — including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others — generate text by predicting what words should come next. They produce fluent, coherent prose with varied sentence structure. The better the model, the harder it is to tell from human writing. ...