Dubious AI detectors drive ‘pay-to-humanise’ scam

Feed an Iranian news dispatch or a literary classic into some text detectors, and they return the same verdict: AI-generated. Then comes the pitch: pay to “humanize” the writing, a pattern experts say bears the hallmarks of a scam.

As AI falsehoods explode across social media, often outpacing the capacity of professional fact-checkers, bogus detectors risk adding another layer of deception to an already fractured information ecosystem.