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Are AI Detectors Accurate? How They Work and Which Ones Actually Catch ChatGPT in 2026

Stanford researchers found that AI detectors falsely flagged 61.3% of non-native English essays as machine-written. OpenAI shut down its own AI text detector in July 2023 because it correctly identified just 26% of AI-generated text. A 2024 study by Perkins and colleagues put the baseline accuracy of six major detectors at 39.5%. Yet vendors still […]

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How Much Energy Does AI Use? The Real 2026 Numbers

How much energy does AI use? A single normal text prompt uses roughly 0.24 watt-hours, Google’s official figure for a median Gemini prompt, to about 0.34 watt-hours for an average ChatGPT query. That is about what an oven uses in one second. The model you pick changes everything. An independent 2025 benchmark put Claude Sonnet […]