My "bot detector" site flagged 14 of 20 real comments as fake, so I switched to reading replies by hand
I ran a little test last week where I fed 20 comments from a local fishing forum into two free AI detectors, and the one that scored everything by "perplexity" got 14 of them wrong while the other one got 4 wrong. The difference was that the first tool only looked at word choice, so anybody who typed in short choppy sentences got marked as a bot, while the second one checked for stuff like repeated phrases and weird punctuation. So now I'm wondering, has anyone here had better luck with a paid detector, or is reading the replies yourself still the only way that works?