By 3 min readMarch 30, 2026 – 12:45PMAFP
Publication Date: 2026-03-30 01:45:00
Type an Iranian news story or literary classic into some text detectors and they return the same verdict: AI-generated. Then here’s the thing: you pay to “humanize” the writing, a pattern that experts say bears the hallmarks of a scam.
As AI falsehoods explode on social media, often exceeding the capacity of professional fact-checkers, fake detectors risk adding another layer of deception to an already fragmented information ecosystem.
While even reliable AI detectors can produce false results, researchers say a number of deceptive tools have emerged online that can easily be weaponized to discredit authentic content and damage reputations.
AFP’s fact-checkers have identified three such text detectors that can supposedly estimate what percentage is AI-generated. The tools – which were accessed in four languages – not only incorrectly identified authentic text as AI-generated, but also attempted to monetize these errors.
A detector, JustDone AI, processed a human-authored report on the US-Iran war and incorrectly concluded…
