OpenAI withdraws AI-text classifier for low accuracy
OpenAI removed its AI-written-text classifier after reporting low accuracy, including only 26% true-positive identification and a 9% false-positive rate on its challenge set.
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Why it moved the index
Withdrawal documented the practical weakness of a proposed institutional detection control, leaving educators and publishers without a reliable text-origin safeguard.
Assessment history
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Toward 35 · confidence 96
New July 2023 counterevidence on generative-text detection controls.
12 Aug 2026
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DoomBench assesses “OpenAI withdraws AI-text classifier for low accuracy” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 35 and confidence 96 out of 100 in the human resilience category.
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The DoomBench assessment of “OpenAI withdraws AI-text classifier for low accuracy” is based on reporting from OpenAI and records the editorial rationale, source quality, attribution, and revision history.
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DoomBench summarizes “OpenAI withdraws AI-text classifier for low accuracy” as follows: OpenAI removed its AI-written-text classifier after reporting low accuracy, including only 26% true-positive identification and a 9% false-positive...
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